Love, Morality, and Ghosts
Sunday is October 1, and that can mean only one thing:
30 Days till Hallowe'en!
So, starting Monday, in addition to our five regular blognovel features, we'll be presenting three more stories especially for the season:
Bram Stoker's Dracula is a chilling tale of love through the ages. If you're familiar with the story from the films, you know that the dark Count isn't all that bad...just hard-done-by by fortune and centuries of solitude (see Gary Oldman's stunningly deep portrayal in Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula...if you can get past Keanu Reeves' accent :) )
Of course, he does drink blood. Lots of it. But we'll forgive him...right?
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus is an intense morality play. Told from the perspective of the monster, this tale of man-playing-God is really a reflection of the author's troubled soul coping with her stillborn child. The notion of creating life was such fascination for her, it modelled itself into a tale of horror and revenge (she feared, at various drug-induced times, the vengeance of her infant's soul on an unfit mother) that has become a staple in the horror canon.
If you haven't seen the Kenneth Branagh film featuring Robert De Niro as the monster, you really need to check it out. But read the book first!
Finally, we're throwing in Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." This is a short story, but we'll split it up over a few days to make it more compact. This is a genuinely classic piece of Americana, and will be sure to put a chill into your Hallowe'en.
By the way, we know that there were multiple copies of chapter VII of The Time Machine published yesterday. We were having some trouble with our Blogger connections, and every time we attempted to publish the chapter we lost connection. Apparently all of those attempts ended up being successful. We've corrected the problem, so no worries.
Happy reading!
30 Days till Hallowe'en!
So, starting Monday, in addition to our five regular blognovel features, we'll be presenting three more stories especially for the season:
Bram Stoker's Dracula is a chilling tale of love through the ages. If you're familiar with the story from the films, you know that the dark Count isn't all that bad...just hard-done-by by fortune and centuries of solitude (see Gary Oldman's stunningly deep portrayal in Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula...if you can get past Keanu Reeves' accent :) )
Of course, he does drink blood. Lots of it. But we'll forgive him...right?
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus is an intense morality play. Told from the perspective of the monster, this tale of man-playing-God is really a reflection of the author's troubled soul coping with her stillborn child. The notion of creating life was such fascination for her, it modelled itself into a tale of horror and revenge (she feared, at various drug-induced times, the vengeance of her infant's soul on an unfit mother) that has become a staple in the horror canon.
If you haven't seen the Kenneth Branagh film featuring Robert De Niro as the monster, you really need to check it out. But read the book first!
Finally, we're throwing in Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." This is a short story, but we'll split it up over a few days to make it more compact. This is a genuinely classic piece of Americana, and will be sure to put a chill into your Hallowe'en.
By the way, we know that there were multiple copies of chapter VII of The Time Machine published yesterday. We were having some trouble with our Blogger connections, and every time we attempted to publish the chapter we lost connection. Apparently all of those attempts ended up being successful. We've corrected the problem, so no worries.
Happy reading!
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