"A Brief History Of Vampires Werewolves In Ireland The United Kingdom And Some Of Europe" Article Citation by Fred Abbott in BookRiot UK

 

Last December Fred Abbott, an investigator of vampire and Werewolf lore in the UK, published an interesting article on the origins of poems, short stories, and novels in these important horror genres. It is a quick read, but one that is informative, nonetheless. Here is a link.

Mr. Abbott published it for BookRiot UK after reading The Best Werewolf Short Stories 1800-1849 Anthology that I edited. He references the anthology as a place to read Catherine Crowe's "The Story of a Weir-Wolf" published in 1846 and that appears to be the first werewolf story by a woman.

The Best Werewolf Short Stories 1800-1849 Anthology contains many other first-of-their-kind werewolf short stories. If interested, your best bet is to order it off Amazon.

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Some things about Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

 

On June 5, 2012, Ray Bradbury passed away.

To his millions of readers, he will live on through his myriad short stories and a few novels that are destined to be classics. The first is Fahrenheit 451, a nineteenth century classic that warns of the dangers of censorship and the banning of books. The second Bradbury classic is Something Wicked This Way Comes, with a title no less intriguing than the first.

In SWTWC Bradbury has given the world a fiendish tale reflected through the eyes of two young boys and their wonderment about a traveling circus. At times the metaphors, the similes, the personifications are overwritten; but mostly they sing across this dark field of a novel, soaring over flapping circus tents and the bizarre inside them. Though lesser known than the decade older “Fahrenheit 451,” SWTWC is a classic that will be read for decades to come. There have also been a few movies, too.

Even Robert Smith of The Cure has been playing a new song about the death of his brother that heavily uses the title of the book. The title is "I Can Never Say Goodbye."

Ray Bradbury isn’t dead. He lives on and plays on. Long live Ray Bradbury.

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