#Women in Horror Month Angela Carter: The Lady in the House of Love

February is Women in Horror Month and Wendy suggested to me we celebrate some of the women writers, directors and artists who have contributed to our love of the genre in a series of posts. My offering celebrates the writing of the author Angela Carter through her short story The Lady in the House of Love. When I started to [...]

 
Vampires of the British Isles By Randall Stone

A Baroness’s Tale Arguably, one of the greatest exorcists the UK has ever known was the late, Reverend Christopher Neil-Smith who sadly left us in 1995. Reverend Neil-Smith was a High Anglican Priest and a very respected man in both his church office and within the community at large within which he worked. In his memoirs he speaks openly about [...]

 
Vampires of the British Isles  Part I  By Randall Stone

The Comte Claude Louis de St Germain   “The other day they seized an odd man, who goes by the name of Count St. Germain. He has been here these two years, and will not tell who he is, or whence, but professes [two wonderful things, the first] that he does not go by his right name; [and the second [...]

 
The Undead of the British Isles  By Randall Stone

Introduction The Wandering Jew     Not many people are aware that the British Isles are as abound with tales of vampires as are the countries of Eastern Europe. Given Britain’s long and diverse history, this has always surprised me. Surely a nation, whose very past is drenched with the blood of millions, must have at least, one vampire type tale? [...]

 
Fright Night: A Review by Nicole Hadaway

Okay, where do I start? I guess I should admit that when they first announced a Fright Night remake, I nearly spit blood.  I mean, how could they take something sacred and re-do it?!  Especially in this day and age, when many films seem to be brain candy and vampires have lost their bite (literally — the Meyer vampires have [...]

 
Future Cinema presents ‘Santa Carla - Missing Persons Day’

A Report By Jevron McCrory Confession upfront; (one I think I already made in my debut novella, Swan Song’s Author Notes) I’m absolutely obsessed with the 1987 vampire flick The Lost Boys. Ridiculously so. This isn’t news to anyone who knows me. (Honestly, it may not even be news to those that don’t). So when my friend’s girlfriend casually announced that not [...]

 
Issue 15: #fridayflash Horror You Should Read

MAKE SURE YOU DROP BY THE #FRIDAYFLASH WEBSITE TO VOTE FOR BOFF READERS CHOICE Welcome to our showcase of #fridayflash horror stories by our authors and contributors, along with our favorite reads around the Internet. ABOUT #FRIDAYFLASH Note that Friday Flash is a separately run writer’s group. “Friday Flash is an Internet meme designed to increase your visibility as a [...]

 
Zombies From Ireland, A Moment in Time by Vamplit

What many of our readers, who don’t follow us on Twitter, won’t know is that I am a committed zombie movie fan. It has been one of my guilty pleasures in life since I saw White Zombie as a child. So, when I got the chance to go and watch Zombies from Ireland being filmed, not far from where I [...]

 
My Blog on Carole Gill's Advice for Marketing Indie Authors

I’ve just been reading You’ve Written a Book Now What? on Carole Gill’s Official Author Blog and wanted to make some comments on the wonderful advice that she, Blaze McRob and Mikel Classen have given readers. It is great advice, from three writers who are out there living it. Each of these novelist are writing and promoting their work with [...]

 
The Stake in Vampire Folklore by Randall Stone

Any Christian worth his/her salt will tell you that the devil will mix truth with lies to confuse you. For quite a time now, the evil one has gone under a new name and his name is Hollywood. Just like his Satanic Majesty, Hollywood will get hold of folklore and twist it out of shape to further its own ends. [...]

 
Hollywood Strikes Again by Randall Stone

Just as it did with the Vampire and the Werewolf, Hollywood decided that the Zombie, in itself was not horrific enough and needed, shall we say, some tweaking? Hence, all Zombies now are flesh eaters and the only way to destroy them is to sever, in some way, the neural network of the spine from the brain stem or to [...]

 
History of the Zombie by Randall Stone

Zombie n. (in vodou) corpse said to have been revived by witchcraft: (colloq.) person who seems to have no mind or will.  (Oxford Popular Dictionary) The story of the Zombie goes right back to the primeval mists of the past, so ancient, that it is difficult to place into a time frame. It’s origins however, are no where near as mysterious, [...]

 
Vampire Vacation Coming to Blood Reads

Announcing Vampire Vacation, a novel by C.J. Ellisson releasing seven chapters here on Blood Reads beginning next month on July 6th. Meet Vivian. She’s a 580-year-old vampire who exudes sex, has a talent for drama, and is passionate about two things: her human husband, Rafe, and their resort for the undead. Her ability to project physical illusions has created the perfect vacation spot—a dark, isolated Alaskan hideaway where visitors can have their wildest fantasies come true. [...]

 
Angels, Angels Everywhere! by Nicole Hadaway

Zombies were all the rage in 2009, and it seems that 2010 is shaping up to be the Year of the Angel. From television and Supernatural to film Legion, to the novel Angelology, angels are cropping up everywhere, and I thought I’d take this time today to share with you some of what I learned about researching angel lore for my own novel, Release, which I started writing in Fall ’08 and finished in Spring ‘09.

 

Perhaps the most prominent and infamous user of this terrible technique was Vladislav Dracula III of Wallachia in Romania, during his longest reign as Prince of that region from 1456-1462. His own country men nicknamed him Tepis, pronounced, Ts-epish, which, translated into English means Impaler.

Although the torture was used extensively by Vlad, he was not the creator of it. Sadly, it had been used to dispatch lives for thousands of years before his birth, begining with, scholars think, the Assyrians, known for their brutal handling of prisoners of war.

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