“As the sun sets on another glorious vampire weekend, and we emerge glutted from our crypts to face the harsh neon glow of another workaday vampire week, we are given pause by recollections of an era before the Nightmare Factory book club assumed power. A mere two years ago, we were forced to disguise our dark ambitions, shrinking from the sun as warm-blooded humans strutted arrogantly through the dazzling world, confident in their continued dominion over the earth and all of the dark shadows it hides. Now that the Nightmare Factory book club’s evil grandeur has cloaked the country, we are finally free to exchange our drab capes for cool leather jackets and fly from our various hellmouths, sparkling in the sunlight from Sunnydale to Salem’s Lot. Join us Tonight- Tuesday June 18th at nightfall (8:00 p.m.) in BookPeople’s ethereal cafe as we celebrate our blood rite by discussing Anno Dracula: Dracula Cha Cha Cha by Kim Newman. With your help, we can make every night Fright Night.
Anno Dracula: Dracula Cha Cha Cha is the third installment of vampiric wordsmith Kim Newman’s Anni Dracula (the Dracula years) series. This tongue-in-cheek alternate history speculates what might have been if Abraham Van Helsing and his merry band of fearless vampire killers had failed in their endeavor to destroy Count Dracula in the late 19th Century. Anno Dracula describes Vlad Dracula’s marriage to Queen Victoria and his subsequent ascent to terrifying power as a vigilante vampire slayer known only as Jack the Ripper bleeds London dry. Anno Dracula: The Bloody Red Baron continues the saga as Vlad Dracula helms the Central Powers during World War One, spreading a mysterious form of lycanthropy through the trenches as he creates a new breed of flying ace. Anno Dracula: Dracula Cha Cha Cha is a giallo synthesizer that pulses with the heart of Italy as everyone from James Bond to Clark Kent to Gomez and Morticia Addams flock to Rome to be a part of Dracula’s wedding, a spectacle that culminates with a bloodbath at the Coliseum. This series is a light-hearted (due to blood loss) and clever confection that never fails to satisfy even the most sinister appetites, and our discussion of Anno Dracula: Dracula Cha Cha Cha tonight- Tuesday at 8:00 p.m. in the BookPeople cafe will be a fun and freaky free-for-all.
The Nightmare Factory book club meets on the third Tuesday of every month at 8:00 p.m. in the haunted chapel of BookPeople’s cafe to discuss the best and worst in literary horror fiction. Bring your wooden stakes this Tuesday as we get to the heart of the vampire genre and help us answer Dracula’s immortal, plaintive question: “Whatever happened to my Transylvania twist?”. Fangs a million.”
~Post by Steven W.
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