#freda warrington

[bookmaven]

Some stunning book covers by award-winning artist Kinuko Y. Craft.

#book blog #books #books books books #book cover #fantasy #kinuko y. craft #tanith lee #patricia mckillip #freda warrington #book design #beautiful books #bookmaven

[forthegothicheroine]

What to Read After Dracula

If you want to read more Stoker: Dracula’s Guest and Other Stories by Bram Stoker

If you want more foundational genre-defining gothics: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

If you want homoerotic vampirism that’s both intriguing and problematic: Carmilla by J. Sheridan le Fanu

If you want a gothic heroine fighting against the villain trying to possess her: A Long Fatal Love Chase by Louisa May Alcott

If you want a protagonist entering an extremely fucked up old money home and fighting for their freedom: Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno Garcia

If you want basically the same plot as Dracula but a lot more batshit and can put up with 1800s racism: The Beetle by Richard Marsh

If you want a modern take on Dracula that acknowledges the sexual assault subtext: The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix (note: this one is very hit or miss, people either love it or hate it)

If you want academics fighting ancient evil and an actual implied cameo by Dracula: The Case of Charles Dexter Ward by H.P. Lovecraft (my personal favorite Lovecraft!)

If you want morally ambiguous mad scientists: The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Other Stories by Robert Louis Stevenson (and read the rest of the stories in it while you’re at it!)

If you want rootin’ tootin’ Americans fighting gothic monsters: Pigeons from Hell by Robert E. Howard

If you want a gothic mystery with a spooky villain: The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

If you want an implied polycule where a nerdy lady does all the real mystery solving: The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

If you want the kind of vampire romance Dracula has become in pop culture: A Taste of Blood Wine by Freda Warrington

If you want something campier: Haunted Castles by Ray Russell

If you want something sexier: The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter

If you want something weirder: Blood 20 by Tanith Lee

If you want to read foreign bootleg Dracula: Powers of Darkness or Dracula in Istanbul, both creatively mistranslated from Bram Stoker

#dracula #gothic literature #dracula daily #books

[shadowsteed15]

So for all the new people just entering the Dracula fandom - and I truly hope there’s a lot of you - and for everyone else, I thought I would give you a list of some of my favourite Dracula stuff so you can get an inspiration as to what to look at next. 😊

Movies

- Dracula (1931) - Hammer Dracula series (with Christopher Lee) - Count Dracula (1970) - Van Helsing (2004) - Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995) - Dracula 2000 (2000) - Count Dracula (1977) - Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) - Dracula (1979)

TV shows

- Dracula (2013) - Dracula (2020) - Young Dracula (2006)

Video games

- Dracula 3: The Path of the Dragon (2008) - Dracula 4: The Shadow of the Dragon (2013) - Dracula 5: The Blood Legacy (2013) - Dracula: Origin (2008)

Plays

- Dracula, the Musical (Dracula das Musical in German)

Comics

- The Tomb of Dracula (1972) - Bram Stoker's Dracula (2020) with the count as Bela Lugosi

Books

- Dracula the Undead (Freda Warrington, 1997) - The Tangled Skein (David Stuart Davies, 1999) - Fred Saberhagen Dracula series - Dracula, My Love: The Secret Journals of Mina Harker (2010)

Audiobooks

- The Unquenchable Thirst of Dracula (2017) - Dracula (2016) with David Suchet and Tom Hiddleston

#renfield #renfield movie #renfield 2023 #dracula #dracula media #dracula movies #dracula books #dracula games #dracula comics

[arwainian]

My Reading This Week:

This is that stuff I have started, finished, or continued reading this wee! (So far not including articles for school, but maybe future editions of this style will) I'm trying to find something to do to catalogue the books I read for if twitter goes down sometime soon, but also to give myself a space to catalogue progress through things that take a while to read, or don't have a real point of being "done."

If I do this again, then the formatting will be subject to change as I do this more and come to conclusions about what works best about this for me! I also might move this to a non-tumblr blog, but right now tumblr suits me fine.

Started & Finished:

Delicious In Dungeon/Dungeon Meshi, volumes 10-11 by Ryoko Kui and translated by Taylor Engel

This manga delights me so so much. I love the art style and the tonal dissonance and all the characters and just... *chef's kiss* mwah. While reading these the other day I kept leaning over to my friend to show him panels I really liked. I'm actually considering tracking down where to read the chapters translated by fans before the official english volume translations come out bc i don't want to WAIT longer than I absolutely have to. But I also have enough to read already

A Restless Truth by Freya Marske

What's up, it's my brand, queer historical romance with fantasy elements! AND this has murder mystery elements too. This could not be more my shit. I don't tend to preorder books because I am... bad at buying books that I want to read? But I did actually preorder an ebook copy of this as a little gift for myself after I read A Marvellous Light, and I found this so delightful that I could not stop my hands moving. This books wins the coveted "made me jump up and down" prize, and the prize of immediately being recommended to a lesbian friend. Also @ Freya Marske's agent, I would have read the ghost threesome, how dare you keep it from me.

Started & Ongoing:

Boy Oh Boy by Zachary Doss

A very dear friend recommended this book to me after [redacted] last year and I finally got around to picking up a copy through Libby and starting to read it. It is very weird. But I think I'm enjoying it? And yeah, I can see why Tort recommended this to me in the wake of All That.

Ongoing Reads:

Blood Sisters: Vampire Stories by Women edited by Paula Guran

See it is big anthology books like this which are the first reason for the 'just plain ongoing' section. Tort also gave/recommended this one to me, if I am remembering correctly, because I am of course a vampire lover, of both the monstrous and scary-sexy variety. (Gosh this is a Tortoise heavy post) Anyway, I've tried reading a bunch of these in one sitting and can't really do it, so what I'll try is to read one short story from this collection per novella or novel that I read, so that I can make continued progress through it. So far I have read the first five stories in it:

A Princess of Spain by Carrie Vaughn Shipwrecks Above by Caitlín R. Kiernan The Fall of the House of Blackwater by Freda Warrington In Memory of... by Nancy Kilpatrick Where the Vampires Live by Storm Constantine

Aurora by Red (of Overly Sarcastic Productions)

comics with no end in current sight are the second reason for an ongoing section! This is fun, tropey fantasy fluff. This one updates three times a week and I do try to keep up, so to avoid being repetitive I probably won't mention it again unless i feel like there's something i Must say about it. but I feel good about finally having a place to say "hey! I'm reading this right now!"

There we go! Attempt number one of a non-twitter reading log, with all of the (non-school related) reading I did this week (and a bit before with that anthology). Also. this may or may not be the most formally formatted posts I have made to tumblr since I made those name-meaning posts for a bunch of homestuck characters, so please appreciate the effort I made

#bookblr #arwainian princessoid decrees #cal reading log

[ambrosiav3nusian]

Midsummer night - Freda warrington

[babyisthebestcat]

Next books on my to read list ~

Flowers in the Attic by VC Andrews

A Dance in Blood Velvet by Freda Warrington

#flowers in the attic #vc andrews #a dance in blood velvet #freda warrington #reading #maybe reading

[mellyorablack]

I just finished reading this book, ‘The Court Of The Midnight King’ by Freda Warrington.

I’ve read other books by Warrington before and I love her style and how she can enchant with her words and stories. This one is special because it’s a story of history - notably that of Richard III - mixed with elements of fantasy. And it works. Those who know me know that I am a ‘fangirl’ for British kings, mostly tragic ones like Robert the Bruce (although he is the least tragic in my list of heroes), Henry V and also Richard III. Ever since his remains were found in Leicester I read a lot about him and his time, the Wars of the Roses and how he came to be king. Of course I know the Shakespeare-play and everything about his reputation, how vile he is painted by history as well as modern reception. I never really thought of him as an evil king, rather a tragic one (as I said). And in my hero worship I tend to think a lot about ‘my’ kings and their fates, what could have happened if they had lived. Would Joan of Arc have become such a famous heroine if Henry V had lived? Would Scotland have been a different, independent country if Robert the Bruce had not died so early (even though for his times he was already old age)? And would things have been different if Richard III had won the day at Bosworth? At least there wouldn’t have been a Tudor reign, no Elizabeth I. and no Royal Family as we know them today....

Well, back to this book. It gives a fictional account of the times of the Wars Of The Roses. And of Richard. There is a pagan religion battling with Christianity and at the center of that is Kate who is both drawn to Richard and one of his closest friends, Raphael. Most of the story is close to what is in the history books, that’s why I dreaded the end of the book as I thought I knew what was about to happen. And knowing the Richard from Warrington’s story and falling in love with him made it worse. But it was a pleasant surprise when I came close to the last page and I now feel some kind of relief and satisfaction that maybe in another reality thing WERE different and Richard wasn’t slain at Bosworth, but became the king I always felt he could have been.

#Freda Warrington #The Court Of The Midnight King #Richard III

[rockislandadultreads]

Enjoy the first lines from these Horror novels

The Piper by Lynn S. Hightower

“They call us, you know, the dead do. The one’s we’ve loved, the ones who’ve passed. Someone you know has received a call -maybe it was you. They call to tell us they love us, to tell us they’re okay. And sometimes they call us to warn.”

Black Heart Boys' Choir by Curtis M. Lawson

“The end of the world, in my experience, is an microcosmic event. It is an intimate experience rather than the cold and dry ultimate chapter in history. Armageddon is not a pandemic wiping out mankind; it is one man’s illness driving him to the makeshift gallows.” 

Bad Man by Dathan Auerbach

“At the sweltering height of north Florida summer, a body was discovered by two boys playing in woods they’d always promised to stay out of.”

The Last American Vampire by Seth Grahame-Smith

“I was dying, and I wasn’t afraid. After all, I’d asked for this. I’d ask for him to bring me as close to death as a man could get. Close enough to see the stitching that holds existence and inexistence together, without actually tearing it. And here I was, perched on a high wire above Hades, nine toes in the grave and the tenth on its way, and all was well and right.” 

Dracula the Undead by Freda Warrington

“Now that our friends are gone, however, and the house is quiet, I feel a strange lethargy of spirit creeping upon me. I try not to think of the vision I had as we stood on the cold hillside beneath Castle Dracula, but it will not let me alone.”

Demons by John Shirley

“It’s amazing what you can get used to. That was a platitude; now it summarizes life for everyone. It means something powerful now. People can get used to terrible privation; to famine, to war, to vast and soulless discount stores. They got used to prison; some got used to living on mountain-tops. But now...”

#horror #fiction #horror stories #scary stories #reading list #tbr #Reading Recs #book recs #Book Recommendations #reading recommendations #library #currently reading #booklr #Book list #quotes #public library #quote

[gothiccharmschool]

Auntie Jillie, I have a question! Besides Anne Rice and Dracula, what are some books you'd recommend for someone who's just discovered their love of vampires? I got into vampires via Vampire The Masquerade if that helps but I'll take any book recommendations from you given you're something of an expert in the subject.

A very short list of suggestions:

Anno Dracula by Kim Newman

Lord of the Dead by Tom Holland

Sunshine by Robin McKinley

The Delicate Dependency by Michael Talbot 

A Taste of Blood Wine by Freda Warrington

‘Salem’s Lot by Stephen King

Ones that are more luridly violent, but still are 90s era classics:

Sunglasses After Dark by Nancy A. Collins

Lost Souls by Poppy Z. Brite (who is now Billy Martin, but the books are still published under their old name)

Ones where the vampirism is a subtle undercurrent, but there:

Dark Dance (well, all of the Blood Opera trilogy) by Tanith Lee

The Stress of Her Regard by Tim Powers

Oh, and if you haven’t read them, the Victorian Age V:tM trilogy is pretty damn good, too. 

#vampire novels #Anonymous

[disneybooksandanimearemylife]

Book Blog: A Taste of Blood Wine by Freda Warrington

The only reason why this took as long as it did was because I was getting adjusted to my new apartment down here in the south. It’s still a better vampire love story then twilight!

PLOT: Charlotte (Charli) is the middle child of three; her sisters Fleur and Madeline (Maddie). Charli is mousy, quiet, keeps to herself, loves science and lab work and would anything to make her father happy; even if means making her unhappy in the future. One night during Maddie’s birthday party everything Charli believed changed within an instant. There standing aloof was a strong, well-built, incredibly handsome Austrian that went by Karl Von Wultendorf. Maddie already wants to claim him as her own but he has set his eyes on Charli. Something about her attracts Karl to no end. Although he must tell her an awful secret if they are to have any form of a relationship. He is a two hundred year old vampire! His master whom he’s been trying to run away from for years is Kristian. Kristian is the epitome of a zealot and will do anything; ANYTHING! To make Karl submissive and part of his grand plan.

PROS: I really like how the characters play off each other and more important how they treat Charli; our main character. Her sister Maddie is like a spoiled child and when she doesn’t get her way or when Karl refuses Maddie’s advancements she blames Charli. Charli just wants Maddie to be happy, but she doesn’t like how Maddie handles everything.

There’s Charli’s father. Charli claims she looks like a clone of her mom and since her passing the dad uses Charli’s looks as a type of coping mechanism. In turn Charli feel like her father would never see her for who she actually is, just a replacement.

Then there’s Karl, Karl sees Charli for who she truly is. Not some saint, but a human with flaws and feelings. A human who craves to explore the outside world but has to walk on eggshells to make those around her happy. A woman who long to be loved, truly loved instead of artificial affections. There relationship throughout the book is what made the story work. 

Keep in mind those were just the main characters. Let’s not forget Kristian the antagonist. He reminds of Frollo. From believing in God to the point where it causing destruction all around him. He uses religion to uphold his arguments, even if he contradicts himself. His faith is so strong it scares the other vampires, talk about power.

Another thing to note is that it’s nice that the author tried to combine science and fantasy in a time period (1920′s) where science was fully taking root. Inventors and scientist alike were discovering evolution, lighting, steam power, and electricity. Witches, Demons, and Vampires were just turning into folktales. So for Karl; a vampire, to ask a scientist where do human evolve from here is funny and intriguing.

CONS: While I did say that Charli and Karl’s relationship was the strongest point in the book; it was also very cheesy. Like, boarderline soap opera cheesy. There was way too much “No don’t leave me! Come back! I hate you, I love you, how could you blah, blah, blah” It could’ve been turned down a notch. Especially because Charli is supposed to be smart, rational character; so for her to get so emotional felt out of place. 

Not to mention those characters I listed earlier were the main cast. I couldn’t even list all the other side characters. There were way to many which in turn lead to a couple of unnecessary side-B plots. Honestly if the author took out two, maybe three characters the story would not have changed one bit. 

I did like it. and Apparently it has a sequel book. I won’t get it right now because I just started a different book but maybe in the future I will. In this time however I will rate it a 6.5/10.

#Book Blog #Personal Readings #Personal Opinions and thoughts #A taste of blood wine #Freda Warrington #Vampires #20th century #sci-fi #Fantasy #Genre #Charli #Karl Von Wultendorf #6.5/10

[tudorblogger]

On This Day - 26 May

On This Day – 26 May

26 May 1897

Publication of ‘Dracula’ by Bram Stoker

BACKGROUND

‘Dracula’ is a Gothic horror novel, and probably the most famous vampire novel ever written. It was placed at number 104 on the BBC Big Read, and was even popular at the time it was written, with positive reviews from critics. However, it didn’t make Bram Stoker a lot of money and he died fairly poor. The book initially cost…

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#1897 #26 May #Anniversary #BBC Big Read #Bela Lugosi #Bram Stoker #Christopher Lee #Dracula #Elizabeth Kostova #Fiction #Freda Warrington #Gary Oldman #Jeanne Kalogridis #Jon Carradine #Jonathan Harker #Luke Evans #Marvel #May #Novel #On This Day #OTD #Publication #Richard Roxburgh #Stoker #Topps #Vampire #Van Helsing

[cinegoremagazin]

Vérmérséklet: Drakula az élőhalott és a halhatatlan - méltó folytatások?

Vérmérséklet: Drakula az élőhalott és a halhatatlan – méltó folytatások?

Bram Stoker legendás regénye, a Drakula idén május végén fogja ünnepelni 121. születésnapját. Kevés lenne egy cikk ahhoz, hogy összes érdemét felsoroljam és részletezzem – nem csak a horrorirodalom egyik legkiválóbb darabja, amely a mai napig megállja a helyét (mellesleg személyes kedvencem, amelyet évente legalább egyszer újraolvasok), de a horror egész műfajára, a korai horrorfilmekre is…

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#dacre stoker #Dracula #drakula #folytatás #freda warrington #vámpír

[chthonic-cassandra]

More book recommendation requests

@forthegothicheroine: Any good vampire books?

It’s a little hard to find ones you haven’t already read, but yes!

Robin McKinley, Sunshine

Octavia Butler, Fledgling

N. K. Jemisin, The Killing Moon

Silvia Garcia-Moreno, Certain Dark Things

I didn’t particularly enjoy Whitley Strieber’s The Hunger (the movie was better) or Suzy McKee Charnas’ The Vampire Tapestry, but both turned out to be important to the development of the genre in ways I hadn’t fully anticipated. Barbara Hambly and Freda Warrington’s vampire series are both pretty middle-of-the-road, but I’ve been having fun with them.

#forthegothicheroine #books #vampires

[goodtobegeeking]

Nights Of Blood Wine: Lush Dark Tales by Freda Warrington (book review)

Nights Of Blood Wine: Lush Dark Tales by Freda Warrington (book review)

‘Nights Of Blood Wine’ is a collection of two parts by Freda Warrington. The first section, ‘Blood Wine Tales’ consists of ten stories featuring characters from the ‘Blood Wine’ world of Warrington’s novels but they can be enjoyed even if you haven’t read those books. Part two, ‘Other Tales’ has five more stories, three of which are loosely based on her ‘Aetherial Tales’ series. The ‘Blood Wine…

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[thehouseofoctober]

Omegaling’s Halloween Reading List

Autumn is, without question, my favorite time of year.  The weather finally begins to cool, the air is perfumed by the scent of crisping leaves and wood smoke, stick-to-your-ribs dinners simmer on stove tops, the spicy-sweet taste of pumpkin tickles our palates, and, of course, it marks the coming of Halloween.  And what better way than to spend those darkening nights, where the shadows begin to move as though they’ve taken on a life of their own and leaves scatter in the wind as though fleeing some unseen threat, than curled up under a warm blanket with a hot drink, reading a good horror story?

Here is a list of my favorite Halloween reads compiled from over a number of years.  Hopefully you’ll be able to find some favorites among them as well.

Books of Halloweens Past

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake

The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury

The Nevermore Trilogy by Kelly Creagh

Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor

Coraline by Neil Gaiman

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

Horns by Joe Hill

The Devouring by Simon Holt

Johannes Cabal the Necromancer by Jonathan Howard

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith

Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris

Fang Girl by Helen Keeble

The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, by John Kelly

Twelve by Jasper Kent

The Shining by Stephen King

The Stand by Stephen King

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

The Pine Deep Trilogy by Jonathan Maberry

Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion

Swan Song by Robert McCammon

Sunshine by Robin McKinley

The Dante Club by Matthew Pearl

The Complete Works of Edgar Allen Poe

Four and Twenty Blackbirds by Cherie Priest

Maplecroft by Cherie Priest

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

Stiff: The Curious Life of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Dracula by Bram Stoker

The Screaming Staircase (Lockwood and Co.) by Jonathan Stroud

This is Not a Test by Courtney Summers

Affinity by Sarah Waters

My 2017 Reading List

The Deep by Nick Cutter

The Devil in the White City by Tony Goldwyn

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter by Seth Grahame-Smith

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

For Halloweens to Come

Shutter by Courtney Alameda

The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty

Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi and Curt Gentry

Rebecca by Daphne de Maurier

The Strain by Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan

The Invention of Murder by Judith Flanders

Darkhouse by Karina Halle

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

The Mothman Prophecies by John A. Keel

Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz

Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist

The Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft

The Necronomicon by H.P. Lovecraft

The Women in the Walls by Amy Lukavics

Bird Box by Josh Malerman

Mary: The Summoning by Hillary Monahan

A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness

The Family Plot by Cherie Priest

Unspoken by Sarah Lees Brennan

Help for the Haunted by John Searles

Rawblood by Catriona Ward

A Taste of Blood Wine by Freda Warrington

Abomination by Gary Whitta

The Tale of Raw Head and Bloody Bones by Jack Wolf

John Dies at the End by John Wong

The Monstrumologist by Rick Yancey

Blood Red Road by Moira Young

The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff

#Halloween #Halloween reads #Halloween books #horror books #horror genre #ghost stories #zombie books #vampire books #post apocalytic books #haunted houses #true crime #nonfiction horror #Classic Horror #dark history #cryptozoology

[mellyorablack]

@miss-dorian tagged me. (Thank you so much, I love to do these things 😊)

Rules: answer 20 questions and tag 20 followers you would like to know better.

🌟Name: Melanie

🌟Nickname: Melly, Mel. My boyfriend says 'süße Maus' and I've got one male friend who calls me 'Miss Adler'. XD

🌟Zodiac sign: Taurus

🌟Height: 1,66m

🌟Languages spoken: German, English. I learned French at school and still understand quite a bit. I also learned Russian for almost 2 years, but it was very hard and I only speak a few words. I started to learn Romanian and hope I'll manage to achieve at least a basic understanding.

🌟Fav fruit: strawberries, blueberries, melon

🌟Fav scent: rose, vanilla and patchouli

🌟Fav season: spring

🌟Fav colour: black

🌟Fav animal: bat, sloth

🌟Coffee, tea or hot chocolate: tea 

🌟Average hrs of sleep: during the week 7, on the weekend 9

🌟Fav fictional character: Sherlock Holmes, Spock and Data and several characters played by Sabin Tambrea like Julian de Vos (Berlin Station) or Joachim Franck (Ku'damm 56/59)

🌟No. of blankets you sleep with: 1

🌟Blog created: January 2012, I think

🌟Fav songs: I'm mostly listening to Sabin singing at the moment (Wohin geht die Liebe, wenn sie geht from the Lola Awards ceremony 2015 and Shakespeare's Sonnets to name a few), a lot of songs sung by Ivan Ozhogin. I also love Lord Of The Lost,  Darkhaus and Subway To Sally, but my favourite songs vary with my mood.

🌟Fav artists: painters: Leonardo da Vinci, singers: Ivan Ozhogin, bands: Lord Of The Lost, Darkhaus, actors: Sabin Tambrea, Benedict Cumberbatch, Tom Hiddleston, writers: William Shakespeare, Freda Warrington

🌟Fav books: Sherlock Holmes, Henry V, The Blood Wine Series, Neverwhere, Parade's End, The Phantom Of The Opera, The Bruce-Trilogy, The King Raven-Trilogy, Robert Burns - Complete Poems etc. (My guilty pleasure is the Fifty Shades Trilogy.)

I tag: @choleria, @erdbeercupcake, @ancillavitae, @damie-mybabies, @foolforlesserthings, @salw0109, @awesome-brokenparadise, @thealpacalives, @annika-of-the-lost, @phantasmagoricfebruary and everyone who wants to do this :)

#personal