(Part 1 of 2!) Let’s talk Vampires!! Officially ushering in Monster of the Month episodes of Aggressive Euphoria. Let’s do this thing.
I couldn’t find my childhood paperback about Vampires! But I did watch Salem’s Lot (1979) and read “The Vampyre” by Dr. John Polidori. Diving into the Year Without a Summer (1816), fireside at Villa Diodati (oops I left off the final “i” in my notes and say “Dio-dot!” But perfection is almost as annoying as precocious children, says I)--to Villa Diodati near Lake Geneva — fireside —weird skies in a volcanic winter. And loads of ghost stories!
Books and articles:
Fantasmagoriana: Tales of the Dead, edited by A. J. Day
Anna Mercer: “On This Day in 1816, John Polidori Finds a Book” bars.ac.uk
Stephanie Weber: “Poor Polidori: The Toxic Relationship that Inspired The First Vampire Story” stephanieweber.medium.com
Akira Fujimaki: “Christabel on the 18th of June 1816: Byron, Hazlitt, Shelley” rikkyo.repo.nii.ac.jp
Media:
Salem’s Lot 1979 television miniseries, directed by Tobe Hooper, based on the novel by Stephen King
“The Vampyre” by Dr. John Polidori
