Tag: Carmilla

  • THE LAST KNOCK presents: Five Star Horror: Female Vampires

    Female Vampires Want You! Years before Bram Stoker’s iconic Dracula, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu brought his Gothic novella, Carmilla to horror readers in 1872. Although male vamps dominated the world until Dracula’s Daughter in 1936, that sparked a hunger for audiences that ultimately resulted in the rise of female vampires in the 1960s. With the…

  • THE LAST KNOCK presents: Dracula

    Dracula Dracula, the dark prince from Transylvania has been a fang in people’s sides since he first appeared in Bram Stoker’s novel in 1897. We explore the undead beast of the Carpathian mountain region, and uncover the myths and truths to Dracula. We’ll look at Vlad the Impaler, aka Vlad Dracul, from Wallachia to the…