Dracula

Stave Churches, which are common in Norwegian lands, are medieval timber framed structures made of timber. The remains of these churches, which were built during the Viking period, appeared in archaeological excavations. However, there are still churches that protect themselves and reflect the period. Borgund Church or Borgund Stave Church. The Borgund Church is the most famous of the 28 Stave churches that have not been found in Norway. Between 1180 and 1250, the Church of Borgund was built by…

With Halloween approaching, there has been an overwhelming presence of Halloween skeletons. Unlike many other fantasy Halloween creatures, the skeleton is real and often poorly depicted as a Halloween decoration. The bones in a real skeleton function as support, protection, movement, storage, and blood cell formation. This skeleton in particular is anatomically incorrect and would therefore function poorly. The rib cage of this skeleton alone has many inaccuracies. A real human skeleton has 24…

Doomed from the beginning Avianna was born into one of the first famlies of vampire hunters that had taken up residency in Poland. Well known to the supernatural world for their utalization of hellhounds to track and kill vampires they were certainly a force to be reckoned with. Most of their hellhounds had been passed down through the generations while ocasionally taking in new pups if they happen to kill the mother of them. Puppies were only saved if they had yet to open their eyes in order…

The author illustrates through the chapter that the monsters in literature are really depictions of mankind’s own faults and deeply rooted capability of malice, consequently, when they show up in literature, it is not for the sole purpose of spicing up the plot. Many of the monsters in literature serve as cautionary tales to remind people, especially the youth, that many of life’s dangers come from within or out of someone else’s selfishness. In the book, vampires are associated with the…

Lindsay Roach Response Journals 5.3 Response 1: The Family of Little feet seemed insignificant at first because Esperanza talked about “Plump little feet”. At first this made no sense to the reader because she was talking about shoes and plump feet. But as this vignette goes on it was important to the characters because it was one of Lucy’s defining moments on her trip through life and an experience with a guy. Although the girls “Were glad the shoes were gone”, it was important for them to…

It is 2015. We are in an era where social justice is highly prioritized and is covered by news, television and social media extensively. As the bigotry and homophobia of yesteryear are rapidly being paraded against, sexual identity, gender roles and sexuality are now being treated in a new light. What was once considered taboo, and in many places illegal, now has become synonymous with emotional strength and coming out of the closet is often applauded. Much like the way that views on…

>Klaus may as well not be a hybrid, just an Original who has some neat-o mutation to heal those with werewolf bites. Exactly! To be honest though the wolves from Twilight actually look like they're capable of bringing down a vampire unlike the TVD/TO ones. The Twilight wolves are huge while the ones we have on TVD/TO look how you've described, like wolf-dogs. When Hayley turned into a wolf it actually annoyed me because I believe that we should've seen Klaus do something like that first…

The term “gothic” was not only employed to characterize a kind of music, it was also used to categorize a writing that involved dark and gloomy elements. Known as Gothic Fiction or Gothic horror, this literary genre is really old. In fact, the Gothic fiction started in 1764, with Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto. The genre reached its success’ pinnacle during the 19th century, with writers such as Mary Shelley (Frankenstein) or Edgar Allan Poe (The Raven). In the 20th century, the Gothic…

Leave it to Jim Jarmusch, the director who gave film audiences the "psychedelic western," 1995's "Dead Man," and the gangster/samurai hybrid, "Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai," to find a way to put his own unique stamp on that most trendy of cinematic monsters: the vampire. In "Only Lovers Left Alive," Jarmusch finds a way to shake off the recently accumulated residue of too many sparkly, lovesick bloodsuckers by recontextualizing the supernatural creatures as the ultimate hipsters. More than…

How did the genre arise and how did it change when television came? Before the genre started evolving into what it is today, the method of frightening people through words and tales has been done from at least the first recorded stories. But before we continue, when spoken of horror it is not all that frightens man, but all supernatural fiction with a dark side; witches, werewolves, etc. Folklore and religious traditions contain the roots of horror because of fictional characters, for example…