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Subj: They'd have to be night classes.
Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2012 at 08:00:56 pm EDT (Viewed 1 times)
Reply Subj: They should have orientation classes at Community Colleges to cover these things. Intro to being undead 101.
Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2012 at 08:37:26 am EDT (Viewed 652 times)



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    Maybe if they instilled good morals and work ethic in these kids while they were young, then they'd become more productive members of society.


I'm sure Vizh is the ideal person to teach them. * makes note *


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    In any event, a story that was great fun. Vinnie's method of divide and conquer was tried and true but fun to see play out. The running commentary between Bernice and the social worker (who could have gotten eaten if you had wanted to raise the stakes... I wouldn't have objected too strenuously) was witty, as were the reactions of the young would-be bride. And, as always, your story was packed with a lot of interesting lore. I assume the reference work you sited was actually published back before Stoker? And if so, have you read it yourself?


Stoker's Dracula was published in the 1880s but wasn't popular before the first movie version in the 1920s. Don Calmet was a hundred and fourty years earlier. I don't have an unabridged copy of his work. I don't know if a full one was ever translated into English. But Calmet quoted extensively from earlier publications like the "Jewish Letters" of the Marquis d'Argens, which was translated into English in 1739 as The Jewish Spy, and draws on various world newspaper accounts of vampire incidents.

Another early source was the famous Voltaire, who writes in his Dictionaire Philosophique that "Nothing was spoken of between 1730 and 1735 but vampires. They were laid wait for, their hearts torn out and burned... The more they were burned, the more they abounded."


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    In any event, always a treat to see one of your stories! Sorry for the delay in getting to it.


That's fine. I've been preoccupied getting a couple of stories ready for a magazine called Wonderlust (which is not a Kirk-type publication, despite its name) which should hit the stands in a week or two. One of the stories debuted on the PVB seven or eight years ago. The other is new.






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