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…still thinking on Dacre Stoker and still thinking on the season at hand, here are nine scary movies as a sample of our horror collection. Obviously we have considerably more than 9 scary movies, but 9 is a scary number right? Isn’t there some horror connotation for 9?

• Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
• The Blair Witch Project Written, Directed and Edited by Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sanchez
• Bram Stoker’s Dracula Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
• Cape Fear Directed by Martin Scorsese
• Kaidan Directed by Masaki Kobayashi
• Kyuketsuki Hunter D  = Vampire Hunter D Directed by Toyoo Ashida
• Nosferatu the Vampyre Directed by Werner Herzog
• Shaun of the Dead Directed by Edgar Wright
• The Witches of Eastwick Directed by George Miller

Dacre Stoker mentioned during his talk he particularly liked the Coppola version of Dracula.  Enjoy!

…now that you’ve read the vampire books we have, here’s the theory behind them:

• Blood Read : the Vampire as Metaphor in Contemporary Culture Edited by Joan Gordon and Veronica Hollinger
• Bram Stoker : a Biography of the Author of Dracula by Barbara Belford
• The Darkling : a Treatise on Slavic Vampirism by Jan L. Perkowski
• Dracula : Between Tradition and Modernism by Carol A. Senf
• From Demons to Dracula : the Creation of the Modern Vampire Myth by Matthew Beresford
• Hollywood Gothic : the Tangled web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen by David J. Skal
• The Living Dead : A Study of the Vampire in Romantic Literature by James B. Twitchell
• The Lure of the Vampire : Gender, Fiction and Fandom from Bram Stoker to Buffy by Milly Williamson

Like Vampires, read Byron!

In honor of the time of year, and in honor of Dacre Stoker’s recent visit, an overview of our collection of vampire fiction:

• Blood Thirst : 100 Years of Vampire Fiction Edited and with an introduction by Leonard Wolf
• Dracula : the Un-dead by Dacre Stoker and Ian Holt
• Fledgling : A Novel by Octavia E. Butler
• The Historian : A Novel by Elizabeth Kostova
• The New Annotated Dracula by Bram Stoker, edited with a foreword and notes by Leslie S. Klinger, introduction by Neil Gaiman
• Nightwatch by Sergei Lukyanenko, translated by Andrew Bromfield
• The Radleys : A Novel by Matt Haig
• The Vampire Armand by Anne Rice
• The Vampire Stories of Nancy Kilpatrick by Nancy Kilpatrick

Of course, to really know vampires one should be acquainted with the work of Lord Byron, although, that can be further work for this blog…

Remember, remember the 5th of November. The gunpowder, treason, and plot. I know of no reason why the gunpowder treason should ever be forgot from a famous film of a slightly sinister nature…and while you remember that remember that Dacre Stoker will be signing books at the Brewer Bookstore today at 4:30, and lecturing tonight in the Winston Room at 8:00.  Great frightening fun, see you there!