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Seventy-eight years have passed since Bram Stoker dredged him from the velvet underground of Victorian sexual repression. The authentic apocalypse of war, the real specter of deprivation, should have exorcised this titled vampire long ago. Instead, Count Dracula has become the Western world's most durable ghoul. There are Dracula dolls, songs, comic books and histories-proving the existence of a 15th century tyrant dubbed Dracul (dragon). Vampire movies have been made almost since the dawn of cinema and, according to Editor Leonard Wolf, there are now more than 200 Draculoid film titles, ranging from the silent Nosferatu...
Wrote he: "If there has ever been a case in which a conviction should be set aside because of prejudicial publicity, this is it." With press references to Calley as "everything from a mass murderer to a ghoul," it seemed as if "all that would be necessary would be for the court-martial to convene and for the judge to announce, 'Bring the guilty rascal in and we will give him a fair trial.' " Then, hyping up his own hyperbole, the judge launched into the opinion's alliterative climax: "He was pummeled and pilloried by the press...
...games left on the Crimson basketball schedule. And while some people would claim (and have claimed) that the season has seemed like an overdrawn horror show, the perversities that could occur this weekend could make the rest of the year seem like a revival of "Ozzie and Harriet." The ghoul of this weekend's feature is the Penn/Princeton double header, also known as the Quaker/Tiger, and, as far as the rest of the league is concerned, it is the baddest of the bad among the Ivies...
...essential to studying the secrets of life, dissection of the dead was anathema to laymen for many centuries. Emperors and popes once forbade the practice, forcing physicians to utilize the services of body snatchers who, as late as the 19th century, obtained cadavers in midnight graveyard forays. One British ghoul, William Burke, was hanged in 1829 for creating instant specimens out of innocent wayfarers. As late as the 1960s, medical schools relied upon unclaimed bodies and found even these in short supply...
...films that have made Hammer, in its words, "accepted as a branded product all over the world" are largely girl-and-ghoul flicks and caveman epics, with titles like Countess Dracula, Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde, One Million Years B.C. and Blood from the Mummy's Tomb. Each is turned out on a near-strangulation budget and schedule ($500,000 and 25 shooting days). The plots, usually lifted from some Victorian romancer like Bram Stoker or Sheridan Le Fanu, are as creaky as the doors of Castle Dracula. The starlets who flit through prehistoric landscapes or quaint Transylvanian villages...