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Carmilla
Written by J. Sheridan LeFanu   
Thursday, 28 August 2008

J. Sheridan LeFanu: Carmilla (1872)

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An Early Fright

In Styria, we, though by no means magnificent people, inhabit a castle, or schloss. A small income, in that part of the world, goes a great way. Eight or nine hundred a year does wonders. Scantily enough ours would have answered among wealthy people at home. My father is English, and I bear an English name, although I never saw England. But here, in this lonely and primitive place, where everything is so marvelously cheap, I really don't see how ever so much more money would at all materially add to our comforts, or even luxuries.

My father was in the Austrian service, and retired upon a pension and his patrimony, and purchased this feudal residence, and the small estate on which it stands, a bargain.

Nothing can be more picturesque or solitary. It stands on a slight eminence in a forest. The road, very old and narrow, passes in front of its drawbridge, never raised in my time, and its moat, stocked with perch, and sailed over by many swans, and floating on its surface white fleets of water-lilies.

Over all this the schloss shows its many-windowed front; its towers, and its Gothic chapel.


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Visum et Repertum (1732)
Written by Melissa   
Tuesday, 26 August 2008

Five years after the death of Arnod Paole, seventeen people died in under three months from alleged vampire attacks in the same village and, on December 12th 1731, the Austrian Emperor ordered that an inquiry should be carried out by Regimental Field Surgeon Johannes Fluckinger.

It is difficult to discount this report signed by no less than five Officers in the army of Charles VI, Emperor of Austria as three of them were doctors and they all would have been extremely familiar with corpses, having served in the army that had fought and defeated the Turks between 1714 and 1718. We must remember, however, that the details pertaining to Arnod Paole in this account are secondhand: as this report was written five years after his death following investigation of this fresh outbreak of vampirism in Medvegia. It was supposed that Paole were the original cause of these later events as it was said that he had fed from animals as well as humans:


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Mirrors
Written by Melissa   
Tuesday, 19 August 2008

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Synopsis: It's been nearly a year since volatile detective Ben Carson was suspended from the NYPD for fatally shooting another undercover officer, an accident that not only cost him his job, but fueled the alcoholism and anger that has alienated his wife and kids and left him crashing on his sister's couch in Queens.


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