Daily Archives: October 15, 2014

Public Domain Horror Fiction – Bram Stoker’s Dracula

Vampires.  They sure do suck these days.  Pun intended.

You’ve got your Twilight vampires who are all glittery and filled to the brim with existential enui.  Then there’s the True Blood vampires who think their whole purpose in life is to act out a different Penthouse forum letter everyday.

Let’s get back to vampirism’s roots, with the bloodsucking fiend that started it all – Count Dracula.  I don’t know about you, but I prefer my vampires to wear capes and medallions, have slicked back hair, and go, “Bleah!  Bleah!” all the time.  Call me old fashioned.

Published in 1897, a stake was driven through the heart of Stoker’s copyright long ago, so you can check out Project Gutenberg’s Free E-book here:

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/345

Happy Reading, Suckers!

“Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot? But there are things old and new which must not be contemplate by men´s eyes, because they know -or think they know- some things which other men have told them. Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.” – Bram Stoker’s Dracula

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Public Doman Horror Fiction!

It’s Halloween time and while the dead rising from the grave is not unheard of at this time of year, rest assured – the copyrights of some of history’s greatest horror authors are as dead as a door nail.

To promote the great horror classics, I’ll be sharing excerpts from the likes of Poe, Shelley, Stoker and King.  Wait, wait my lawyer just called.  King’s still alive.  OK, no King!

Links will be to http://www.gutenberg.org – the home of Project Gutenberg, a wonderful ongoing effort to digitize and preserve the classics, making them free and available to everyone.  Please check their site out and if you can, donate.

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#tweettheraven

Through my twitter handle – @bookshelfbattle (which you should totally be following for tweets of a booktastic nature) – I have started a new thread – #tweettheraven

Yes, throughout October, I am going to tweet the text of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven.

I’m doing this either a) to educate the masses about a beautiful work of poetry or b) I have no life.

I haven’t decided yet.

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