As part of the Read an Ebook Week I’m reading Satan’s Toy Box an anthology of short stories and poems inspired by one of our #fridayflash prompts and published by Angelic Knight Press. The author of the poem below is Blaze McRob and he has given us permission to reproduce it here. Many of our
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Read an E-book Week is here again and this year on Vamplit Blog it’s bigger and better than ever before. This year we’ll be celebrating the ebook with events and competitions throughout March. For those readers who have never heard of Read an Ebook Week it’s a worldwide promotion of electronic books which aims to
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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