Except, his thesis was right, and didn't go far enough
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7.5 The villagers then get out their pitchforks and torches.
I bet you haven't read this one:
https://www.amazon.com/Varney-Vampire-Feast-Blood-Malcolm/dp/0979587158/ref=sr_1_3?crid=NE2IUSFARCOZ&keywords=varney+the+vampire&qid=1666722927&qu=eyJxc2MiOiIzLjEyIiwicXNhIjoiMi43NyIsInFzcCI6IjIuNTEifQ%3D%3D&sprefix=varney+the+v%2Caps%2C296&sr=8-3
This is where Bram Stoker got a lot of his ideas for "Dracula."
It's the size of a NYC phonebook -- you get your money's worth with this tale. I've read it twice. 😁
BTW: This particular addition of Varney also includes the following:
"Four additional early Penny Dreadfuls detailing insanity, family cannibalism, torture gone wrong, and other bed time stories."
The one on family cannibalism was based upon an actual event.
Besides "Varney," Rymer is also credited with writing "Sweeney Todd," which was also based on an actual event.
I've often wondered whether Rymer knew something about what was going on for reals at the time, and simply wrote about it.
It was published in England as a "penny dreadful." Penny dreadfuls came out serially each week for a penny, and contained a few chapters of a story. They were read by the newly-literate working class who couldn't afford books. They tended to be quite exciting and dramatic, in order to keep the readers coming back for more.
The author is James Malcolm Rymer, one of the most prolific of the penny dreadful authors. It was said that at times he was working on several tales at the same time. How he kept all of his storylines straight is beyond me, as some of these stories were published on a weekly basis for up to two years or so.
Rymer is a very interesting character. It's been generally said that the writers were poor, as they got paid a penny per line of text. Most died in abject poverty, but somehow Rymer became a "Gentleman," as listed in the UK census, and died quite wealthy. He eventually joined the Freemasons, which hints that he was more than just a lowly writer of pulp fiction.
Rymer's first wife died and he remarried. His second wife's father was a political rabble-rouser who got himself arrested for protesting the stamp tax on periodicals and went to jail for a short time because he refused to pay the fine.
He also bought a hotel and ran it for awhile, where he had some, if memory serves, foreign royalty come to stay.
Knowing what I know now, I really think there are a lot of hints in there of things that were actually going on at the time. When reading Varney, I noticed a lot of alchemical references -- especially to the alchemical elements, like tin, silver, mercury, etc. Varney's eyes were described as being like tin, which I find to be an odd way to describe eyes. Varney also tends to target young, virginal women whom he marries and then sucks their blood and kills them.
Although "Varney" was written before Rymer became a Freemason, I think he was already dabbling to some extent with the occult. There are just too many hints throughout the book.
That is pretty close to what I came up with. Only main difference is I think it goes back much farther in history.
this could be a movie
Hope not I have porphoryia.
Extra Princess points for using Bene Gesserit reference! 😉👍🏼
I probably would have got thrown out of that party. I would have told him that his thesis on vampires was total bullshit, because the real reason Hollywood reveres vampires is because the upper echelons of Hollywood are literal blood sucking, cannibalistic, child exploiting, wicked, satanic, pagan, freaks, who always like to display who they really are in their art, as a form of duper's delight. And, that is why they frequently glorify vampires- to glorify themselves. Sick fuckers.
Heres an alternative thesis for you - the monster archetypes in western literature (and of other societies too for that matter) going back many centuries have common elements correlated very strongly with dominant and infernal crime powers at the time. Vampires much more so than any other exemplar.
Its as though conventional warnings would either wane over time or fail to be heeded entirely, so those crafting the warnings had to reach into the allegorical to convey the point - stories and folklore being a timeless thing.
Current Education forces you to look for deeper meanings and hidden commentary in stories. So long as it’s an approved meaning.
Sometimes a story is just a story. There is no intentional hidden critique about societal problems or deep political commentary. It’s solely there to entertain or spook you in the case of horror.
I think that’s what’s primarily been killing Hollywood and other assorted media. People don’t write stories or screenplays to entertain now. They don’t write to entertain as their primary focus. Their primary focus is forcing their personal critique about societal problems and personal political commentary down people’s throats.
I’ve seen better written and acted stories come out of groups of friends and small time low budget Indy studios on the internet. Then I have out of mainline studios.
Because they still write to entertain first and foremost. Sometimes they get daring and have a societal critique or political commentary hidden in there. But their primary focus is entertaining people. Not being ham fisted attempt at trying to be a political commentary
How about this one:
They are real.
Lots of these mythical beasts may well be real.
Have you seen John Podesta's canines? They are long.
Most of the time a story is just a story, despite what creatively-bankrupt academia asserts.
I think he's implying adrenochrome
I love the over analytical, mental gymnastics of so called academics.
Word salads for all.
Hence the useless title "doctor"