poetry sale!
Oct. 9th, 2017 11:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwynnegaMy poem "scenes from a marriage" will appear in Strange Horizons, one of my favorite publications. cafenowhere suggested I write a poem about this photograph by Elliott Erwitt, and "scenes from a marriage" was the result.
Last night on TCM I watched The Return of Dracula (1958), which I'd never seen before. It's not great, though the "vampire posing as a family member idolized by a young girl" premise gives it a Shadow of a Doubt vibe. Also I watched House of Dracula (1945), which I've seen a few times and like very much, especially for the part where mad science cures Larry Talbot's lycanthropy, and Billy the Kid vs. Dracula (1966), which I'd heard about for decades (and okay, I didn't watch the whole thing, but wow, John Carradine's Dracula is a lot campier in this film than in the Universal movies).
cafenowhere suggested I write a poem about this photograph by Elliott Erwitt, and "scenes from a marriage" was the result. Last night on TCM I watched The Return of Dracula (1958), which I'd never seen before. It's not great, though the "vampire posing as a family member idolized by a young girl" premise gives it a Shadow of a Doubt vibe. Also I watched House of Dracula (1945), which I've seen a few times and like very much, especially for the part where mad science cures Larry Talbot's lycanthropy, and Billy the Kid vs. Dracula (1966), which I'd heard about for decades (and okay, I didn't watch the whole thing, but wow, John Carradine's Dracula is a lot campier in this film than in the Universal movies).
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Date: 2017-10-10 05:21 am (UTC)Also, you're making me want to revisit both "Return of Dracula," which I loved (my favorite part was what happens to her fashion drawings) and "House of Dracula" (cute hunchback lab assistant girl! Larry being alternately self-destructive and a lovesick dork! Vampire syphilis!)
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Date: 2017-10-10 04:42 pm (UTC)Thank you!
I do wonder whether Dan Curtis had Return of Dracula, with its vampire "cousin," in mind when he decided to bring Barnabas Collins to Dark Shadows.
House of Dracula really is delightful. Vampire syphilis! John Carradine's hypnotic eyes making the other lab assistant girl play spooky piano music! Long-suffering Larry!