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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 memoirs he speaks openly about [...]
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 [...]
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? [...]
I had spent a restless night. The high winds that assault the mountains in this part of the world had whistled and groaned around the ancient eaves and whispered mischievously against the tiny diamond shaped glass in the window panes of my room. The scene from the novel Dracula, where Jonathan Harker looks out of his bedroom window and sees [...]
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. [...]
Shadows soft as cobwebs fall,
Cast by ancient, crumbling walls,
Where dwells no rat or even mouse,
In this cursed Charnel House.
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 [...]
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, [...]
The word “poltergeist” comes from the German “poltern”, meaning to bluster, jangle or rumble. “geist” simply means spirit and together, Poltergeist translates as “noisy spirit”. The word poltergeist also relates to a type of speech; to talk loudly or/and abrasively.
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.
When Countess Dracula swoons
Her breasts both pop out like balloons
My guest follows me from the ball room and we leave it to its fond and distant memories of gayer times. I stand at the foot of the stairs and wait a moment as Randall’s eyes sweep this great and beautiful chamber like a child’s in a sweet shop. I tune myself into his mind, a subtle little trick that [...]
My Guest Arrives Ah, the sound of carriage wheels against cobbles, finally my guest arrives. Putting down my first edition volume of “Wake Not The Dead” by Johann Ludwig Tieck, I rise from my chair and cross to the window. Far below me in the courtyard I see a young man alight from my ancestral coach. As I eye him [...]
When I contacted the mysterious writer Randall Stone and asked if he would write a regular column on vampires here on vamplit.com I wasn’t sure what we would be getting. I gave him a free hand and his only remit was to produce an informative, interesting column without taking risks with his own neck. Well after reading the first installment, [...]
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