We’ve been getting a heap of useful material out of decadent and romantic poets, so let’s continue. John Merivale was part of Lord Byron’s social circle, and this poem is about a vampiric plague in Pest, which is one of the three cities that merged to form modern Budapest in Hungary. The following recording was…
Read MoreThe Child who Went with the Fairies by J Sheridan Le Fanu
For our Monster of the Month, we’re returning to the works of J. Sheridan Le Fanu. Weirdly, I’m starting this story halfway through. The reason I’m doing that is because Le Fanu was an Irish author writing for an English audience, and he spends the first half of his story explaining that you can keep…
Read MoreHow Tori Amos, Nextwave and Kasey Chambers entered Mythic Europe
So, first post on the blog! The first dozen or so posts will be, like this one, little pointers indicating that parts of the site have been completed. The first pages I’ve completed are about Librivox and my magazine articles. I’ve also just finished the first run at the page for Tales of Mythic Europe,…
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