Vampires are after me. Well maybe not literally but they seem to be around. Let me explain. I just finished reading Elizabeth Kostova’s The Historian. It is a novel about a vampire. Not just any vampire, the vampire. Dracula. Now I am not goth or into any vampire subculture or anything like that, but I do like a good scare now and then. I enjoy a good horror movie from time to time (and by horror movie I do not mean the gorefest, exploitation films that seem to pass for horror today. I mean psychologically scary stuff). So I dig vampires as much as the next guy. From Bela Lugosi to Christopher Lee and the Hammer films to Gary Oldman. Hell I even liked George Hamilton.
So anyway, I read Kostova’s novel and loved it. There are a few to many coincidences in the story which I always see as the least creative way to move a plot point along, but other than that I was totally sucked into the story and the characters. Then last night as I am flipping through the channels I come across a History Channel special on the origin of vampires. I was particularly struck by the disturbing tale of Countess Elizabeth Bathory. It was gross. Lastly, this morning I was checking CNN.com as I do every morning and I was pleased to see the Poe Toaster made an appearance again. For those of you that don’t know, every year on Edgar Allen Poe’s birthday a cloaked figure goes to Poe’s grave and leaves three roses and half a bottle of cognac. While this doesn’t have anything to do with vampires per se it is still gothic and creepy.
So maybe vampires aren’t really after me, maybe I just in the mood for a little scare.
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