This Podcast Bites
Just a little podcast about vampires and how they're represented in popular culture.
Episodes
Join Mattie Tucker (mattie-tucker.com), Robyn, Mona, Geoffrey Sperl (geoffreysperl.com), and Fred (@alysdragon; in a cameo at the very end) for a discussion of three vampire comedies from the 1980s and 90s: Once Bitten, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and A Vampire in Brooklyn. It's a lively and strong discussion—enjoy!
Join Alys Wilfred Earl (@alysdragon), Mattie Tucker (@doomedrider), Robyn, Mona, and Geoffrey Sperl (geoffreysperl.com) for Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire. We discuss the novel at length, plus the movie and a tiny bit of the new TV series. This also serves as a lead-in to our next episode on The Vampire Lestat and The Queen of the Damned. Is it a standalone book? Is it truly the start of a series? Very importantly, is it a ...
Join Alys Wilfred Earl (@alysdragon), Mattie Tucker (@doomedrider), and Geoffrey Sperl (geoffreysperl.com) for Jewelle Gomez's The Gilda Stories. We also discuss a bit of how the novel serves almost like a counterargument to Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles (which we will be tackling in the near future).
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Join Alys Wilfred Earl (@alysdragon), Mattie Tucker (@doomedrider), Michael Gordon (@bengoram), and Geoffrey Sperl (@geoffreysperl) for another LOST EPISODE! In this episode (recorded in February 2019), we discuss Octavia Butler's FLEDGLING (and there's a reference to some of what Geoffrey and Mona were talking about recently on BabylonSquared, too!), question where the capitalist American vampire originated, and discuss some VAMPI...
Join Alys Wilfred Earl (@alysdragon), Mattie Tucker (@doomedrider), Michael Gordon (@bengoram), and Geoffrey Sperl (@geoffreysperl) for a LOST EPISODE! In this episode (recorded in April of 2017), we discuss Holly Black's THE COLDEST GIRL IN COLDTOWN (and there's a reference to BABYLON 5, too!). References abound to our first episode (CERTAIN DARK THINGS) and some foreshadowing for BLOOD SINISTER, too! And... is Mattie really Holly...
Join Alys Wilfred Earl (@alysdragon), Mattie Tucker (@doomedrider), Michael Gordon (@bengoram), Mona Lucius, and Geoffrey Sperl (@geoffreysperl) for a discussion of Bela Lugosi's vampire movies: DRACULA (1931), MARK OF THE VAMPIRE, RETURN OF THE VAMPIRE, and ABBOTT AND COSTELLO MEET FRANKENSTEIN (fine, fine... and MOTHER RILEY MEETS THE VAMPIRE if you're into self-punishment).
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Join Alys Wilfred Earl (@alysdragon), Mattie Tucker (@doomedrider), Michael Gordon (@bengoram), and Geoffrey Sperl (@geoffreysperl) for a discussion of the Dracula audio drama trilogy by Big Finish (with Mark Gatiss as the count). And a shout-out to a new podcast Geoffrey's on—BablyonSquared (https://babylonsquared.thepodcasting.studio), which is a weekly Babylon 5 rewatch podcast.
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Join Alys Wilfred Earl (@alysdragon), Mattie Tucker (@doomedrider), Michael Gordon (@bengoram), and Geoffrey Sperl (@geoffreysperl) for a discussion of Salem's Lot by Stephen King (and a bit about the casting news from Netflix's The Sandman).
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Join Alys Wilfred Earl (@alysdragon), Mattie Tucker (@doomedrider), Michael Gordon (@bengoram), and Geoffrey Sperl (@geoffreysperl) for a discussion of Fangland by John Marks.
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Join Alys Wilfred Earl (@alysdragon), Mattie Tucker (@doomedrider), Michael Gordon (@bengoram), and Geoffrey Sperl (@geoffreysperl) for a discussion of Those Who Hunt the Night by Barbara Hambly.
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Join Alys Wilfred Earl (@alysdragon), Mattie Tucker (@doomedrider), Michael Gordon (@bengoram), and Geoffrey Sperl (@geoffreysperl) for a discussion of Blood Sinister by Celia Rees.
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Join Alys Wilfred Earl (@alysdragon), Mattie Tucker (@doomedrider), Michael Gordon (@bengoram), and Geoffrey Sperl (@geoffreysperl) for a discussion of Let the Right One In (the novel and film) and the Hammer English language adaptation, Let Me In.
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