This is an easy to watch, suitable for children — and yet you may well learn something – video lesson about the history of vampires in folklore and fiction. I’m pretty sure this video will act as GM inspiration and throw out a suggestion or two someone looking for some familiar yet different horrors. This […]
Kim Newman in the Johnny Alucard interview
Author and horror maestro Kim Newman is the man responsible for the Anno Dracula series. The first novel – Anno Dracula – was published in 1992 and depicts an alternative history where Dracula arrives in England and survives. Vampires become mainstream and for some people that’s a problem. Johnny Alucard is the fourth in the […]
Review of Anno Dracula: Johnny Alucard
Anno Dracula: Johnny Alucard is the fourth book in Kim Newman’s best-selling series. It follows Dracula Cha Cha Cha and that’s a bit of a surprise. Cha Cha Cha very much felt like the end of the series. Johnny Alucard is responsible for starting it again.
Wizards without Coats: Vampire
Really? When did Vampires get groupies? What a drag! This is the dangers of making vampires seem sexy and popular. The zombiebox broadcast system (aka; the TV) has made the bloodsuckers a favourite of teen fans all across the kingdoms. This gives adventurers a whole new problem!
Short film: So Dark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSwEmXK5gMQ So Dark is a short film by the British writer Al Lougher. It’s actually episode 19 from Stage 5 TV’s The Continuum which hosts a collection of attention grabbers. Police have no idea that the man they’ve arrested for a murder on a late night train is actually a vampire with a conscience and […]
Catching up with VS Comics: issue 4
At the start of the year I looked at Mike Garley and James Moran’s VS Comics (issue 1). This is an anthology of stories available across a few digital platforms. Since then Garley’s Eponymous, one of the four stories, has a book of its own and is worth tracking. However, the usual appeal of an […]
A Taste of Blood Wine review
I had a chance to interview A Taste of Blood Wine’s author Freda Warrington before I read the book. In my research for that interview I found many reviews that raved about it; best vampire story ever was a common claim and best story ever was not uncommon either. I asked Freda about the expectations […]
Vampires and bandwagons: An interview with Freda Warrington
Freda Warrington is the author of the highly acclaimed A Taste of Blood Wine. In this interview, I ask Freda about the story, about vampires but also about gender roles in fiction and in reality. Are female authors treated differently? You can try this test yourself; what comes to mind when you speculate on a […]
From the Inkwell: The problem with being a; flesh-eating, blood-drinking, skin-wearing, bone-collecting, vengeful humanitarian
This From the Inkwell design essay is from Tim Westhaven of Broken Tower. Broken Tower’s FateStorm system is a diceless, detailed, set of RPG mechanics and the company has just released the Shattered Moon setting for it. In Shattered Moon players take on the roll of Sidhe. These people had ancient souls that finally awoke […]
Succubus: The Reborn
[Back this Campaign] Mark Rein-Hagen co-founded the RPG publisher White Wolf and created iconic games like Vampire: The Masquerade and Werewolf: The Apocalypse. His next game might be Succubus: The Reborn if this Kickstarter is successful. This game is very different from the storyteller RPGs. This is a card game in which players, working in […]
