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Hermes Helps Out
Hermes Helps Out This collection of poetry, Persephone’s Echo, is about the echoes of the past in both mythology and my personal life. This collection combines the Jungian archetype with Sylvia Plath like confession. It also combines the personal with … Continue reading
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Tagged 2008, A Dark Muse, Adonis, Aeneid, Affair, Alicia Keys, All Apologies, Anais Nin, Anxiety, Aphrodite In Jeans, Apollo, Ares, Artemis, Athena, Birth, Bring Me To Life, Building A Mystery, Burn For You, Butterfly Chains, C S Lewis, Cari Lynn Vaughn, Cassandra, Christa Wolfe, Dante, Daughter, Dead Souls, Death, Demeter, Depression, Dido, DJ Muse, Echo, Electra, Emily Bronte, Erica Jong, Evanescence, Fall, Fallin, Father, Garden, God, Goddess, Greek Mythology, Gyges, Hades, Harry Potter, Harvest, Heart Shaped Box, Hera, Hermeneutics, Hermes, husband, I &I, I See Stars, If on a winter's night a traveler, Iio, Intertextuality, Italo Calvino, Kreo, L Frank Baum, Longing, Lost, Margaret Atwood, Marriage, Medea, Memosene, Mother, Motherhood, Narcissus, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, Odysseus, Ohio, Ovid, Penelope Prescribes Perseverance, Persephone, Persephone's Echo, Phoenix, Play, Poems, Poetry, Possession, Publish, Rapture, Rick Riordan, Ring, Rings, River Styx, Robin Fox, Sappho's Leap, Sarah McLachlan, Sehnsucht, Shakespeare's Sister, She Who Remembers, Shelby, Spring, Stay, Strawberry Fields Forever, Subtext, Summer, Summerhouse Later, Surfacing, Taja Sevelle, Text, The Art of Love, The Beatles, The Chronicles of Narnia, The English Patient, The Neverending Story, The Road To Oz, Tragedy, Underworld, Virgil, Winter, Wuthering Heights, Zeus
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Lost Girl’s Hybrid Heritage
Lost Girl’s Hybrid Heritage I recently discovered the Showcase Show Lost Girl and binged watched it on Netflix. The Canadian Urban Fantasy show ran from 2010-2015. It also ran on the SyFy Channel, but I never caught it. While I … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV, Mythology
Tagged Aaron Ashmore, Alcede, Anita Blake, Anna Dressed In Blood, Banshee, Bisexual, Blood Mage, Bo Dennis, Bothers Grimm, Brownies, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Caribbean, Celtic, Claudia Donovan, darkness, Doyle, Duppy, Dyson, elements, Evony, Fae, Fae-bysitting, Father, Gaelic, Geruda, Grandfather, Greek Mythology, Guruda, Hades, Hale, Hans Christian Anderson, Harry Potter, Hel Shoes, Heritage, Hindu, Hybrid, Indian, Iris, Irish, Jacob Grimm, Japanese, Jumbee, Kenzie, Kitsune, Ladyhawk, Laurell K Hamilton, Lesbian, Light and Dark, Lost Girl, lover, Lover's Apart, MacKenzie, Meredith Gentry, Michelle Pfeiffer, Monster of the Week, Mother, Mount Olympus, Mythology, Nate, Netflix, Night, Norn, Norse Mythology, Nyx, Pam, Paranormal, Penthouse Suite, Percy Jackson, Peter S Beagle, Red Caps, Richard, Scottish, Seelie, Selkies, Sex, Showcase, Siren, Sookie Stackhouse, Steve Jinks, Succubus, Syfy, Tamsin, The Dark Queen, The Last Unicorn, The Morrigan, The Phantom Queen, The Red Shoes, The Skeleton Key, The Vampire Diaries, The Wanderer, The Wizard of Oz, The X-Files, Trick, Tristian and Isuelt, True Blood, Unaligned, Unseelie, Urban Fantasy, Valhalla, Valkyrie, Vampires, Voodoo, Warehouse 13, Werewolves, Xena, Yggdrasil, Ysabeau, Zeus
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Dracula in the Dark: Film Adaptations of Dracula
Dracula in the Dark: The Film Adaptations of Dracula By James Craig Holte, 1997 Vampires often shapshift, particularly on film. Varney The Vampyre came first, then Carmilla and then Dracula. CLASSICS 1922: Nosferatu 1931: Bella Lugosi’s Dracula 1979: Frank Langella … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, History, Literary Criticism, Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV
Tagged 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1990s, Anne Rice, Bella Lugosi, Bram Stoker, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Carmilla, Children of Eve, Christabell, Christopher Lee, Count Chocula, Dark Beauty and the Beast, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dracula, Dracula Dead and Loving It, Elizabeth Bathory, Films, Frank Langella, Gothic Romance, Greek Mythology, Has Dracula Become More Like Us or Have We Become More Like Him?, Lamia, Legia, Lenore, Lillith, Movies, My Grandpa is a Vampire, Nosferatu, Once Bitten, Salem's Lot, Satanic Rituals, The Biography of Dracula, The Bride of Corinth, The Brides of Dracula, The Castle of Otranto, The Count on Sesame Street, The Devil and the Evil Spirits of Babylonia, The Gothic Flame, The Iliad, The Interview with a Vampire, The Italian, The Land Beyond the Forest, The Lost Boys, The Monk, The Mysteries of Uldopho, The Odyssey, The Prince of Darkness, Vamprie Cop, Varney The Vampyre, Video, Yama
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Radiant Darkness
March 26, 2009 Radiant Darkness “Gleaming in the dark/I’m as light as air/floating there breathlessly/when the dream dissolves…” Nina Gordon sings in her 2001 solo song “Tonight and the Rest of My Life.” It embodies the idea of Radiant Darkness … Continue reading
Posted in Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV, Writing
Tagged Albigensian Crusades, Cari Lynn, Ecstasy of Darkness, Emily Whitman, Faulkner, Feast For Crows, Game of Thrones, George R.R. Martin, Greek Mythology, Hemingway, Legend of the Seeker, Nina Gorden, Persephone, Radiant Darkness, Romanticism, Song of Fire and Ice, Terry Goodkind, Tonight and the Rest of My Life, Underworld, War of the Roses, Weightlessness, Wizard's First Rule
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