Tag Archive | "vampires"

Books: Neil Gaiman reads Down Among the Dead Men

Thursday, January 31, 2013

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Our own James spotted this on YouTube – Constable and Robinson, who have published a number of very fine and successful genre anthologies covering science fiction, fantasy, horror and more over the years, have a new collection edited by genre anthology stalwart Stephen Jones, Zombie Apocalypse: Fightback. One of the short stories in the collection [...]

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Comic horror on the island on the edge of the world

Monday, February 13, 2012

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The remote archipelago of Saint Kilda on the rugged western seaboard of Scotland has been something of a romantic view of a lost world for decades: life on the islands was hard, so hard that in 1930 the few remaining inhabitants were evacuated by the authorities, the homes lie there now abandoned to the elements, [...]

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Interview With the Vampire goes Graphic – again

Thursday, July 21, 2011

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Publisher’s Weekly announces that Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire novel is to go graphic, with a new adaptation from manga publisher Yen Press, who also did the graphic adaptation of Stephanie Meyer’s incredibly popular vampire novel Twilight. I should really say Rice’s novel is going graphic again, as Interview, along with the Vampire Lestat [...]

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Martin – a comics film review

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

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Adam Cadwell offers up a review of the great George Romero’s film Martin in comics form on the Electric Sheep site. It’s a pretty cool way to do the review of an unusual film and one I’ve always thought was one of the more interesting entries in the filmic vampire genre, a genre in which [...]

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Blood Blokes

Friday, May 7, 2010

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Now that he is winding up his The Everyday series Adam Cadwell has been revealing some details of his next work, a project he’s had in mind for some time apparently, a ‘slacker vampire comic’ called Blood Blokes. From Adam’s description: “Blood Blokes is a six issue series about Vince, a 20 something slacker who [...]

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The Fearless Vampire Killers, or Won’t Somebody Please think of the children?

Monday, March 22, 2010

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The BBC’s Scottish site looks back to the 1950s and Glasgow’s vast Southern Necropolis, where a policeman has been called to investigate a group of children. PC Deeprose expected to find petty, childish vandalism and given the era no doubt was thinking he’d be doing nothing more than providing a clip round the ear to [...]

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The New Vampire’s Handbook – now we’re definitely looking at Christmas.

Friday, November 13, 2009

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The New Vampire’s Handbook by Joe Garden, Anita Serwacki, Janet Ginsburg, Chris Pauls, and Scott Sherman Square Peg A sure sign that Christmas is coming – novelty adult stocking filler books begin to dominate the shelves of your local book megastore. Which explains the existence of The New Vampire’s Handbook. It’s one of those books [...]

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Twilight New Moon behind the scenes footage

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

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With the next Twilight movie, New Moon, about to hit cinemas very soon (not soon enough for some very eager fans, I know!), here’s a video of some behind the scenes footage via Collider.com to whet your appetite: httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoXUY7XGVSU

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