While not the original or even the earliest, clearly the most famous of the vampire stories, is that of Bram Stoker: “Dracula“. A midling actor in 1890 Dublin, Stoker knited together the legend of the real 15th centery Wallachian warload, Vlad, known as Impaler, with Romanian legends, from the Carpathian mountains, of blood suckers to create a […]
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The Strain coming to TV next summer 2014
FX orders 13 episodes of drama series ‘The Strain’ LOS ANGELES — The FX channel says it’s ordering 13 episodes of a drama series based on “The Strain” trilogy of vampire novels. FX said Tuesday that the series will be produced by the books’ authors, filmmaker Guillermo del Toro and Chuck Hogan. Del Toro, whose […]