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Post by dem bones on Aug 21, 2018 13:25:25 GMT
Voices From The Vaults is the flagship publication of The Dracula Society, to my limited knowledge, the oldest British vampire-interest club, founded by Bernard Davies and Bruce Wightman way back in October 1973. Would that it were otherwise, but those issues of Voices ... we have to hand date from the 'early nineties, single-sheet affairs for the most part, providing details of the Annual Bram Stoker banquet, the quarterly meet at The George Inn on Borough High Street, recent fang-related publications and cinema releases, not much else. Gabrielle Podova's modest Vamps is an Encyclopaedia Phantasmagoria in comparison. The one exception being this twelve-pager. Katherine Haynes (ed.) - Voices From The Vaults (The Dracula Society, London, Summer 1994) John Madracki The Vampyr Bernard Davies - The Power of the Cross. Des Bradley - The Power of the Cross. Review. Forthcoming Attractions: Uncle Silas at the Lyric Helen Clare Steele - The Harmonic Band John Madracki - Dracula, Anne Rice and all Manner of things. John Madracki, Tina Rath, Bernard Davies - Tomes from the Tomb: Book reviews. Rosie Gilbert - A Small Report from the TV FrontIn the words of Katherine Haynes, issue comprises John " The Cancer Chronicles" Madracki, "on practically everything under the sun, with put-down comments by the editor," the small support cast barely getting a look in. Drac Soc. co-founder Bernard Davies' contribution is "in response to last issue's cover," but copy before me is missing four pages - including the review of this mysterious The Power of the Cross - so have no idea what he or Des Bradley are talking about. The good news is, The Dracula Society remain an ongoing concern, and their website generously provides a free sample issue of a post-Millennial, much improved Voices From The Vault. Download yours HEREDave Hawley (ed.) - Voices From The Vaults (The Dracula Society, Winter, 2008) Editorial
Des Bradley & - Mark S. Rebot - Recent Events: Back To The Book Alan Brown - Screams From The Screen Claudia Andrei - Dracula: 1958 Bernard Davies - Mind You Language Photo Special Sue Gedge, Bathsheba Flourish, Berni Stevens - Tomes From The Tomb: Book Reviews. Bathsheba Flourish - Whispers From The Wireless: M. R. James at Christmas & A Warning To The Furious Joe M. Marks - The Ghost Of Bray ContactsPhoto inset includes a full colour pin-up of a smiley Lord John Llewellyn Probert proudly showing off his Children of the Night trophy for The Faculty Of Terror. He is in the very best company. Children Of The Night Award winners: 1987-2016
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Post by andydecker on Aug 21, 2018 17:23:28 GMT
The Dracula Society sounds like fun. As the proud owner of maybe half a dozen different editions of the novel (not to mention too many adaptions in other media) this could be interesting.
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Post by dem bones on Aug 25, 2018 13:22:55 GMT
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Post by helrunar on Aug 25, 2018 22:58:07 GMT
Thanks for posting those links, Kev. Maybe I can look through those when I get back from my vacation--will be offline for a week starting today UK time (Sunday 8/26).
cheers, Steve
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Post by dem bones on Aug 26, 2018 16:29:13 GMT
Thanks for posting those links, Kev. Maybe I can look through those when I get back from my vacation--will be offline for a week starting today UK time (Sunday 8/26). cheers, Steve Enjoy your vacation, Steve. Doris's intriguing blog provides insight on a contemporary horror scene I was hitherto entirely oblivious to.
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Post by dem bones on Sept 15, 2018 13:31:28 GMT
Margaret L Carter (ed.) - The Vampire's Crypt #5 (California, Spring 1992) Donald W. Schank Margaret L Carter - Editorial: Cryptic Remarks
Fiction Nancy Kilpatrick - Farm Wife Marlys Huffman - A Change of Diet Katherine X. Rylien - County Fair 2092 Richard Stooker - Bloodfire Buzz Lovko - Lugosi Wannabe Richard Sharpless - Local Legend Martin Fallon - Mass Production Steven Sharp - Jet Lag
Non -fiction Anon - [Margaret L Carter?] - The Horror Writer's Guide to Minimalist Haunted Housekeeping ("humor") Sandra Robinson - Reader's Commentary: Vampire Sexuality Interview with Tanya Huff Catherine B. Krusberg - Vampires in Print Verse by John Grey Illustrations by Donald W. Schank, Donell Meadows, Albert J. Manachino and Kevin D. Duncan, and Elliott L. Roden Nancy Kilpatrick - Farm Wife: Bert's family are afflicted by an undiagnosed heredity "fancy kind of anaemia." When, late in life, the disease overcomes him, Noma must rely on prodigious strength and uncanny command of her bloodstream to survive an assault on her jugular. An Inventive take on the theme, ending is spectacularly bloody. Marlys Huffman - A Change of Diet: Big City life disagree with the Master's metabolism. Too many of the beautiful people walking the Strip use alcohol and/ or amphetamines. Boris the manservant suggests he restrict his diet to the working classes. Must admit, I'm at a loss how this would solve the problem .... Martin Fallon - Mass Production: Von Harlow's company abduct upper middle class children from the streets for use as blood-banks. Demand is so great among their exclusive clientèle that Von Harlow can name his price. It's not money. Buzz Lovko - Lugosi Wannabe: Detective Bilya and partner Karen Todd on the trail of a prolific "vampire" killer. Eyewitnesses claim the culprit - all slicked back hair and opera cape - makes his getaway in a Limosine. Bilya so wants to take down this deluded clown. All roads lead to a family vault in Wilson Grove Cemetery. Richard Sharpless - Local Legend: Grey Beach, Hawaii, 1966. Surfer dudes Aka and Wilkie are menaced by a sensual Lapu after nightfall. Some indication as to how vampire novels came to proliferate throughout the early 'nineties. In The Vampyres Crypt #1 ( Summer 1989) Catherine B. Krusberg's reviews ran to a modest two pages. Come issue #2 (Summer 1990) they'd fill ten. By # 6 (Fall 1992) it was eighteen.
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Post by Anthony Hogg on Nov 23, 2019 21:38:33 GMT
I'm absolutely loving this section. I had no idea there were so many different vampire periodicals; many of which I haven't heard of before. Just this morning, I've been in touch with John Beckett, editor of Journal of the Dark (1994–1998), to see about buying up back issues of the magazine. I'm friends with Martin V. Riccardo, and got all the issues of Journal of Vampirism (1977–1979). Another good one was Journal of Vampirology (1984–1990), edited by John L. Vellutini. Interviewed him for my website: vamped.org/2016/09/20/interview-with-john-l-vellutini-editor-of-the-journal-of-vampirology/. I've also floated the idea of creating a vampire periodical database: www.academia.edu/9372519/A_Vampiric_Proposal. I'd love to get my hands on many of these journals, including Crimson, VIEN and the one created by a vampire hoaxer, that rhymes with Boss and the Lake.
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Post by Anthony Hogg on Nov 24, 2019 19:10:46 GMT
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Post by Anthony Hogg on Jan 24, 2020 14:06:35 GMT
International Vampire from Amsterdam was always a front runner in the vampire research stakes, and the editor now produces the classy Shroudeater site. Twenty issues in all, mostly devoted to obscure vampire "epidemics" from around the globe. Rather than adopt the tragic "they're real because I said so!" approach of many of his only-in-it-for-the-chat-show-appearances contemporaries, our man was never convinced. Do you still have copies of this publication? I'm especially keen to get my hands on the first issue.
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Post by dem bones on Feb 19, 2020 8:52:46 GMT
Allen J. Gittens [ed] - For The Blood is the Life: Special Issue #2 Vampire Society, 1991 Jenny Power Allen J. Gittens - Editorial
David Landt - Divine Right Lorraine Sinnott - For the Blood Catharine Mason - Once a Human Maurci K. Bowes -St. Ives, 1991 Adrian Farrington - The Stripper Holly Jones - In the Blink of an Eye Susan R. Kagan - Until Death Do Us Part (verse) Cat - The Vampire's BossA readers' fiction special. David Landt - Divine Right: Grim struggled between a cornered vampire and tooled-up Church of England exorcists. Lorraine Sinnott - For the Blood: Safforn places an advertisement for a donor in a vampire journal. Debbie, who has long fantasised about sucking another girl's blood, responds. When the latter brings a knife to bed it doesn't take long for the relationship to turn Countess Bathory. Catharine Mason - Once a Human: After the vampire apocalypse, Highbridge is one of the few remaining all-human villages still in existence - until the arrival of the new GP, Dr. Steve Ensenant, threatens to spark old hostilities. Adela, who falls for the undead medic, is literally caught in the crossfire - she's shot down by a crossbow bolt. Can Steve save his lover without damning her soul? Maurci K. Bowes -St. Ives, 1991: Centuries after his death, he returns to old stomping ground to pick up where he left off, exsanguinating a girl outside a pub. Adrian Farrington - The Stripper: "The love in his heart and the lust in his loins amused her ..." Steve pursues her from club to bar, from America to England. Finally, following a performance in Soho, she invites him into her dressing room. Holly Jones - In the Blink of an Eye: Alison plucks her latest victim from among a group of lads drinking in the Happy Soldier. At least when she eventually lets him die, he'll most likely do so with a smile on his face. Cat - The Vampire's Boss: He sought eternal freedom but the dark gift, as bestowed by sexy Cassandra the vampire lover, is not all it's cracked up to be. As ever, the Grim Reaper has the last laugh. Donna Crow [ed.] - Necroscope #2 (Deadly Nightshade, 1992) Second and final issue of slick Goth rock 'zine. Interviewees include Louis del Rey of Nosferatu and Storm Constantine. Emphasis on the music scene but also some poetry, book reviews (Anne Rice, Brian Lumley, and Vampire: The Masquerade) and short fiction. Editor would later publish the Vampire/ Occult/ Egyptology interest Erebus Rising.
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Post by dem bones on Apr 11, 2020 8:24:24 GMT
Dave Close [ed.] - Chronicles #12, (London Vampire Group, Winter 1999). All change from previous issue with a brand new editorial team, A4 lay-out and improbably chirpy outlook. Demon Barber: The True Story of Sweeney Todd: Part 1 an obvious highlight, not least because "All factual detail taken from 'Sweeney Todd, The Real Story of the Demon Barber of Fleet Street' by Peter Haining" so no questioning its authenticity. No less diverting, an interview with a 'normal person' (i.e., a 31 year-old-management consultant named Joanne) to find out what they think about those who adopt a "vampyre" life-style (death-style?), because let's face it - how could anyone not find them really, really interesting? Michel Parry's internet round up concerns the 'Catty Goths,' a super-rich, super-cool yuppie slime barbie trio given to the trolling and vile persecution of less affluent Goth & or Vampire types who don't measure up to their high standards. Issue also includes articles on the LVG's visits to Dungeness and Kensal Green Cemetery, the solar eclipse, DIY teeth, Herbal remedies (the first in a new series and they kick off with garlic?), Arlene 'Bite Me' Russo on Scots Vampires: undead and Kicking!, and the by now obligatory book, film, music, and fanzine reviews. Anyone know if there was a Chronicles #13?
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Post by dem bones on Apr 12, 2020 6:25:00 GMT
Louisianiax Caliban, Colin Chester, David Smith [eds.] - Chronicles #11 (LVG, 1999) Cover photo: David Smith & Dylan Collard. Models Dena Costello, David Smith. Back cover David Smith A highly professional job. Interview with Rosie Lugosi, once of the March Violets, reincarnated as 'the Lesbian Vampire Queen of Manchester.' Michel Parry contributes a poem, the tragic - in every sense - Terrible Tale of Little Suck-a Thumb "in the tradition of Heinrich Hoffman and the Tiger Lilies." Mick Smith's lust for vampires leads him to explore the Orkney's while Deborah Hyde offers a sympathetic portrait of Montague Summers. Katherine Hayes - whose excellent weird tale The Stalls of Barchester Theatre graces the current Ghosts & Scholars - here collaborates with Vince Mattocks on The Golem: A Brief Explanation of the History of the Man of Clay. Ian Dowler provides five pages of classy book reviews, and Dave Smith shares several photographs from the Torture Garden's eighth birthday party, at least two of which are decidedly not for the squeamish.
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Post by dem bones on Apr 12, 2020 18:47:58 GMT
Maria Todd [ed.] - The Unicorn: Count-Dracula Fan Club Bi-annual Extra (New York, Spring, 1979) A Word from the Guest Editor
Martin Proctor - Unicorn City and Me Jan Arter - 81 Things You May Not Have Known About Unicorns T. P. - The Animal That Never Was T. P. - The Narwhal M. J. Fairweather - The Real Story A Kid For Two Farthings (Movie Review)
Collector's item: Opening Night Dracula Playbills
The Poetry Corner, with poems by Margaret G. Keyes and Chris Robinson and an Old English Nursery Rhyme
F. Francis - Moldovian Market Place News
Carole Anne Lombardo - About the Count Dracula Fan Club
Updated listing of books in the Count Dracula Fan Club Library, as of April 1st 1979.A very dear friend sent me a copy of this as a present. Bastard.
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Post by dem bones on Apr 15, 2020 19:36:41 GMT
Thomas J. Strauch [ed] - The Coven Journal 4 (Chicago, June 1990) Thomas J. Strauch - Coven Master's Commentary
Fiction: Catharina Tenebrae - Blood Sisters Jeanne Youngson - Beating The Odds Chad Savage - Cowboy's Lament (or Pas DeDude) Barbara Sutcliffe - Woodacres Adrianna (Muriel Perkins) - Eucharist Ariel Smith, Amanda Clay & Melissa Bosco-Torchio - The Vampire Letters Sherrie Brown - Diet of Death Martin V. Riccardo - A Message to Mortals Susan R. Kagan - Once Upon a Time ... Norma K. Lanai - The Night Trilogy Renee Beret - Coffee Vampire Chad Savage - Takes One To Know One
Non Fiction: Rob Brautigam - The Vampire of the Rue Serpente
Plus: The Coven Speaks: Letters Column Coven Forum The Coven Bizarre Treasures from the Coven Vault Vampire Volumes: Book & Magazine Reviews Poetry by Tammerie, Lewis Sanders, Mary Shen Barnidge, D. Ringelheim, Renee Beret, the Queen of the Damned Of all the late 'eighties-'nineties vampire fiction magazines, this was my favourite. Problem was, the Children of the Night had disbanded by the time I realised they existed. The majority of these stories are three-four pages in length and, for me, infinitely preferable to much of the material included in 100 Vicious Little Vampire Stories. A best of the vampire zines could have been something really special. Catharina Tenebrae - Blood Sisters: A colony of outcasts proves a popular tourist attraction. Keira, who feels the emotions of others so powerfully she bleeds profusely in the presence of misery and pain, is befriended by "pixie punk" Azzy - a vampire. Jeanne Youngson - Beating The Odds: Professor Dimard compulsively cheats on his wife with a succession of students, but this latest, Lily Arthur, a virgin before he got his hands on her, is proving infuriatingly difficult to ditch. When wife Anne falls pregnant he vows to mend his ways, but Lily's vampire teddy bear has other ideas. Chad Savage - Cowboy's Lament (or Pas DeDude): A pair of Texan car-jackers come unstuck when Jasper hits one of their victims too hard. Her pale, thin boyfriend shows up in a black and chrome 'sixties Stingray ... Barbara Sutcliffe - Woodacres: Over two hundred and fifty years after her suicide, the Mistress Lynette Karri returns to the mansion house. Sherrie Brown - Diet of Death: "I didn't choose you for your looks, you fat toad!" Mere weeks into her vampire existence, a slimline Sheila has the satisfaction of ramming 'Bat boy's cruel taunts back down his throat. No more weight watchers for Sheila and her no longer "pleasantly plump" acquaintances! Adrianna (Muriel Perkins) - Eucharist: Now that he has successfully commandeered and animated a corpse, essence of Stephen requires regular blood transfusions to keep him sprightly. He relies on friend and, until recently, host body, Kit, to make a substantial donation. Rob Brautigam - The Vampire of the Rue Serpente: Paris, 1928. 'Antoine-Joseph Maillard,' sculptor and abattoir worker, is sentenced to life imprisonment in an institution for the criminally insane after the razor-murder of a young woman. Maillard evidently killed her to drink her blood - his work at the slaughterhouse had given him a craving for the stuff. Locked behind bars with the insatiable thirst upon him, Maillard had no option but to resort to auto-vampirism. Author gives his source as Maurice Aubenas's Les Vampires, published in France in 1930. Ariel Smith, Amanda Clay & Melissa Bosco-Torchio - The Vampire Letters: Written by three unashamed Anne Rice fans (although, in at least one case, that would soon change), looking back this doesn't seem my type of thing at all, yet I adored The Vampire Letters, so much so that I daren't revisit them for fear of ruining a beautiful memory. The gist runs something like this. Alison, undead at twenty three, turns first Elissa, a rebellious teenager, then the sweet and innocent Ariel. Finding Elissa unbearable, Alison abandons her 'children', ostensibly to hunt down her maker. Ariel, who is yet to kill, decides that she too has had enough of petty, self-centred Elissa and ventures out into the big wide world. The initial correspondence ( Coven Journal #3), is between Ariel and Amanda, detailing the formers adventures from early, tentative feeds to killing three Goths desecrating a cemetery. Ariel crosses the ocean, joins a London-based rock band, and falls in love with Ian, a fellow musician. When Ian learns of her condition - and still insists they marry - she has little option but to love him into his grave. In this final issue's instalment, Elissa writes Ariel who - despite her anger at blood-sister's tone - returns to America. Alison, however, has made up her mind to destroy her first born. She is also keeping tabs on a vampire coven led by 'the Queen Bee,' a Prima donna portrayed in an even less sympathetic light than the graveyard Goths in the first episode. Susan R. Kagan - Once Upon a Time ...: "I curse and condemn you and all your loved ones to the Hell of your master unless you can get pure-hearted people to willingly suffer you to drink their blood before the next full moon." So rages Father Bartholomew - a fine way to repay King Ray and his beautiful daughter, the Princess Lilena, for their hospitality. But never fear, there's a happy ending. For the King and Lilena, that is. The Priest, less so. Renee Beret - Coffee Vampire: Peter Gray, undead at twenty, avoids girlfriend Muriel for fear of rejection when she leans of his unhappy condition. He needn't have worried. Norma K. Lanai - The Night Trilogy: (1). The Night Stalker. Sarah is pursued by "the most ethereal and gorgeous of all creatures" whose heavy coat is just too Transylvanian, what with it being the height of summer an' all. Sadly, the "something special" he's kept for her beneath this impressive garment ensures things won't work out between them. (2) Tonight. Mom berates Melanie's attitude problem when she breaks up with Jeff over the phone having tormented him for weeks. She is in for a far bigger shock when she blunders into the girl's bedroom to find she has company. (3). A Night Out. Wandering the streets after dark with the thirst upon him, he chances on an all-night Butcher's shop where a goddess in gory apron serves him raw hamburger and, on the house, "a large Styrofoam mug of steaming hot blood." When she smiles at him, he flees in terror, unable to hold his own in the presence of the real thing. Narrated by the shamed poseur. Chad Savage - Takes One To Know One: Tragic bogus vampire annoys wrong person at Fantasy Convention. See Slimy Fans. Martin V. Riccardo - A Message to Mortals: Connoisseur of human blood insists Vampire fans taste best because they're way superior to mere ordinary mortals. Really slimy. Thanks to Rob IV!
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Post by dem bones on Apr 16, 2020 17:09:54 GMT
Combination of lockdown and seeking content for Haining scrapbook thread set me to revisiting mags and 'zines, trying to arrange them into some kind of order on shelves of shame. Sorry exercise turned up a few titles/ issues I didn't even know I had. Case in point: Dave Close [ed.] - Chronicles #14, (London Vampire Group, Autumn, 2000). Cover photo "trawled from internet." Back Creed Stonegate So, they did survive past issue 12. They also got around a bit. Issue includes reports by Mick Smith, Arlene Russo and - ho ho - Vlad Tepes, on the Second World Dracula Congress in Poiana Brasov, Transylvania (Dracula 2000); Dave Calver on the LVG's Autumn 1999 expedition to Egypt; and, closer to home, Ken Naylor spends Halloween in Manchester at the second Nocturnal Convention. Brigit Cherry examines Millennial culture and the popularity of vampires. Dr. Rachel Armstrong interviews sculptor and performance artist Franko B. Power-shoppers Michelle Bullock and Angela West very briefly suspend their marathon countrywide spending spree to consider Death and the Victorians - the stock exchange collapses as a result. Just the two book reviews - aforementioned Ms. Bullock on Marie Ann Mitchell's Sips of Blood and A. Rice's Merrick - but Mick Smith's fanzine round up includes an overdue swipe at Bloodstone (up to issue 5 and still pathetically desperate for someone to PLEASE find them "controversial"). Other bits and bobs include Celebrity Stiffs ("Who's Buried wherein Britain?"), cosmetic contact lenses, and - one for JoJo - Obituary: Michael Ripper.
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