literature

Another brief vampiric interlude

“Drink from me and live forever.” Remember that? It’s the tag line from the film adaptation of Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire. I’ve been shopping for a poster from that movie to hang in my classroom and seeing that tag line again reminded me of why the vampire was so scary for so long.…

August 13, 2009

Steven E. Wedel

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allusion, anne rice, bible, blasphemy, bram stoker, christianity, l.j. smith, literature, poll, stephanie meyer, vampire, werewolf
Reading at Literati Indie Book Fair

I’ll be attending the Literati Indie Book Fair at the AIO Gallery, 811 N. Broadway in OKC this Saturday. I’ll have a reading at 2 p.m.; the fair itself runs from noon until 8 p.m. At the moment, I’m planning to read “Elysia” from Call to the Hunt. I have to keep it PG-13, so that…

June 25, 2009

Steven E. Wedel

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book fair, literature, performance, reading, writing
A Brief Vampiric Interlude

Think of the vampire as KISS, once a thing feared by religious folk, but now the most fearsome of the original foursome is pitching cherry Dr Pepper and living a scripted lifestyle on TV. The werewolf is like The Sex Pistols — raw, nasty, untamed and probably not something you really want to live with.…

April 19, 2009

Steven E. Wedel

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anne rice, bram stoker, burial, death, enlightenment, folklore, john polidori, kiss, literature, lord byron, paul barber, sex pistols, stephanie meyer, twilight, vampire, vampyre, werewolf, werewolves

Another brief vampiric interlude

Reading at Literati Indie Book Fair

A Brief Vampiric Interlude