Vampire Mania
Vampire Mania: Foreign Bloodsuckers
Mar 29th
by Michael McCarty
Today’s Vampire Mania column is devoted to the Foreign Undead.
Nosferatu: The First Vampire, 1922
Starring Max Schreck (Count Orlock)
Directed by Frederick W. Murnau
Written by Henrik Galeen
75 minutes
Black & White, Silent
The earliest surviving film based on Dracula is Nosferatu, Eine Symphonies des Garuens (roughly translated: Nosferatu, Symphony Of Horror), an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel.
One of the first vampire movies, it is also one of the best vampire movies ever made: generally creepy from beginning to the last frame. Thick with atmosphere and expressionistic overtones, it is one of the most important and influential motion pictures made in More >
A Great Honor
Feb 7th
It is such an honor that my fiction collection, A LITTLE HELP FROM MY FIENDS (Sam's Dot Publishing), and my nonfiction collection, ESOTERIA-LAND (Bear Manor Media), both have made the HWA's Bram Stoker Award PRELIMINARY BALLOT for works published in 2009. The FINAL BALLOT will be announced in a few weeks.
Wish me luck (I'll need it!) ….
Vampire Mania: Vintage Video Vampires
Dec 1st
Michael McCarty's regular collaborator Mark McLaughlin says: I posted this for Mike while his computer was down. Everybody congratulate Mike on his recent marriage to his long-time sweetie Cindy! You'll find pictures from the wedding on his Facebook page.
VINTAGE VIDEO VAMPIRES
by Michael McCarty
Hello, I’m Michael McCarty, author of the vampire novel Liquid Diet, and this is the second installment of my vampire column here at GravesideTales.com. Vampires are now hotter than ever, thanks to the smashing success of the new Twilight movie and the vampire series True Blood on HBO. But there are plenty of great older vampire movies, too. Vampires weren’t More >
