TEACHERS' LOUNGE

As usual, the VAMPIRES page on Michelle Henry's precious  website  provides  you  numerous  resources...  but    not   the   ones    I'm recommending   now   (I've   just   checked :-) : "Bloody Vampires !"  displays a  brief  webography  which includes  the 5 articles / hilarious video / graph parody that I've been selecting today...  I do hope you'll enjoy them !

"Stephen  King  explains  how  to  make  vampires   'scary again' "

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  [...] "Here's what vampires shouldn't be : pallid detectives who drink Bloody Marys and work only at night ; lovelorn southern gentlemen ; anorexic teenage girls ; boy-toys with big dewy eyes," writes Stephen King in the introduction to his move into original comic book writing, American Vampire.  "What should they be ? Killers, honey."  [...]  from                    'The Guardian' - September 30, 2010      

Many teachers have had their students study "Twilight", "Dracula", "Interview with a vampire" or other 'vampire stories'... and the students did enjoy the subject ! Here are a few articles on this fad for vampire stories, be they books or films. I think these articles are quite interesting... hope you'll enyoy them as much as I did ;o)

 "Vampires Suck - Actually, They don't. And That's the Problem" 

by Grady Hendrix - on Slate (July 28, 2009)

"Vampire Literature : the Crisis of Being Human"

October 31, 2009 - fro'Battleofideas' website

"Why Vampires Never Die"

from the 'New York Times' - OpEd by G. Del Toro & C. Hogan (July 30, 2009)

 "University  Conference  Sinks  its  Teeth  into  Vampire Fiction" 

As English teachers  write  rather academic English I  wonder  whether  I ought to let such a film title show up here...  just joking, for the film is too funny not to mention it   

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Eventually click on this graph to view one of the latest vampire novelists's know-how 

There is a small spelling mistake in this bar chart : it is in the bars caption : can you find it ?!

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