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Tag: Dracula

  • Why haven’t I written a vampire tale?

    Why haven’t I written a vampire tale?

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    ejurus

    Keeping up with everyone who’s now referring to this month as ‘Augtober’, dreaming of the impending Halloween season, I thought I’d address this burning question. (At least to me, maybe not anyone else 😉) I’ve been enthralled with vampire stories and movies ever since I first saw the superb Christopher…

  • Are you ‘Dark Academia’, Neo-Victorian, or even Cottagecore at heart?

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    ejurus

    These days there’s a label for everything. Our society seems unable to function unless it’s categorized a trend and given it a designation. I suspect there are people quietly living their own way without knowing that their lifestyle falls under a certain ‘aesthetic’. The poor fools 😉   What’s most…

  • Fascination with the Supernatural

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    ejurus

    I discovered a new (for me) newsletter on the weekend. The attraction was an article titled “Goblin mode: a gothic expert explains the trend’s mythical origins, and why we should all go ‘vampire mode’ instead”. Actually, it was the word “goblin” that caught my eye. As supernatural creatures go, goblins aren’t…