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...said about this book, and about vampires in general, that you prefer more vicious ones, none of this "Romantic languid young men sucking the necks of beautiful people." That aspect of vampirism has never attracted me. In Polidori's Vampyre, the beauty of Lord Ruthven - who is the vampire in that story - the beauty of him is that he's both. He is described as a creature in one scene, and he's also the romantic lead. Those strands will always be intertwined in the common imagination. But I'm attracted much more to the re-animated corpse hungry...
...shows." The gallery is named after the legendary magazine published from 1903 to 1917 by photo pioneer Alfred Stieglitz - the period when photography was established as an art form. Camerawork displays photographs by greats like Man Ray and Leni Riefenstahl, and features works by promising photographers such as Robert Polidori and Mona Kuhn. tel: [49-30] 31 00 773; www.camerawork.de GALERIE MICHAEL SCHULTZ Located in residential Charlottenburg, the gallery specializes in painting and sculpture by young German and international artists. The venue has "one of the best programs in town of both established artists and rising stars," says Rump...
...shows." The gallery is named after the legendary magazine published from 1903 to 1917 by photo pioneer Alfred Stieglitz-the period when photography was established as an art form. Camerawork displays photographs by greats like Man Ray and Leni Riefenstahl, and features works by promising photographers such as Robert Polidori and Mona Kuhn. tel: (49-30) 31 00 773; www.camerawork.de...
...Harriet Westbrook, Bysshe's legal wife who goes insane, Susan B. McConnel performs a convincing and disturbing monologue before drowning herself. After this scene, she is reduced to gratuitous appearances as a silent ghost. Vincent d'Errico is appropriately prissy and deluded as Dr. William Polidori, the small-minded biographer who hangs around the writers and turns up his nose at their liberated lifestyle...
Frankenstein was a modern horror story; Russell means Gothic to be the last horror show. Byron is Count Dracula, feeding on his guests' dreams and demons. Shelley is every weak hero, Polidori every mad doctor, Clairmont every wench whose lust turns her into a succubus. And Godwin, racked by visions of her stillborn child, becomes the cursed mothers of The Exorcist and Rosemary's Baby. From the labor of her nightmares, she gives birth to literature's most enduring monster...