The FrankenPod - A Gothic Literature and Cinema Podcast

Warning: SPOILERS AND SWEARS

Poor Polidori!

We talk literary scandal, vampires, pubic hair love tokens and Mary Shelley's revisionist history of her great literary creation.

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Alix's primary source: Dracula's Guest: a connoisseur's collection of Victorian vampire stories, edited by Michael Sims, published in 2010

Thanks as always to the U.S. Army Jazz Band for making Kelli's Number available on the Free Music Archive.

Morgan explores the genesis of the detective novel.

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Thanks as always to the U.S. Army Jazz Band for making Kelli's number available on the Free Music Archive

Thumbnail image By Harper & Brothers Co. - https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/File:The_Moonstone.djvu, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=48093749

Morgan explains the gothic city as setting to Brent.

Brent makes his case for Dark Angel as a gothic text worth studying

Morgan acquiesces

Thanks so much to the U.S. Army Jazz Band for making Kelli's number available on the Free Music Archive

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In this episode, we talk about the Frankenstein-esque tale Peter Carey's 'My Life as a Fake'

To explain the book in any real way you need to know about Ern Malley...

And to tell the tale of Ern Malley you need to know about Angry Penguins...

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Thank you to the U.S. Army Jazz band for making Kelli's Number available on the Free Music Archive.

Spoilers, Swears and one homophobic slur in particular.

Brent gets to explore the urban gothic tale of Sin City that he has a deep and abiding love for.

Morgan is unimpressed.

Thanks to the U.S. Army Jazz Band for making Kelli's Number available at the Free Music Archive

Other music this week was

Carry Me Again by GeeNerve is licensed under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.

Image source: Sin City by Transformer18 on Flickr CC-By 2.0

MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS AND SWEARS

Erin @Ravie13 walks Morgan through some of the underappreciated elements of Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 Dracula.

There's so much going on that went right over our heads!

Thanks so much to the U.S. Army Jazz Band for making Kelli's Number available on The Free Music Archive

I'm a Jazz Vampire by Marion Harris is licensed under a Public Domain / Sound Recording Common Law Protection License.

Erin is the host of SubverCity, Jenny Walker on Congeria Podcast, Voice on No Sleep Podcast, Fitz the Werewolf, Ghost Hunter, Owner of Never Not Clever

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The image is Jacek Malczewski "Polish Hektor" from 1913. Included by virtue of its place within the symbolist movement mentioned by Erin.

WARNING: Swears, spoilers, literary racism and misogyny

Alix tells me all about 19th-century Vampiric Women, about what made them scary and more than one reason why some of the books she's studied are more than a little problematic.

And the internet conspires against us.

A massive Thank you as always to the U.S. Army Blues band for making their song Kellie's Number available for free on the Free Music Archive.

Cold War and Evermore are from Sustains by Kai Engel and is licensed under an Attribution License. Find his work on the Free Music Archive

Image By No 1 Army Film & Photographic Unit, Chetwyn (Sgt) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Sarah from Good Nightmare shares her personal love of Dracula.

Morgan is NOT scared of armadillos.

And Brent makes a claim.

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Thanks to the U.S. Army Jazz band for making Kelli's number available in the public domain

Dracula Blah blah Blah

Brent tackles the 1992 special effects nightmare that is Bram Stoker's Dracula and does his best Winona Ryder impersonation.

Morgan tackles the ACTUAL 1897 story Dracula by Bram Stoker and gets really angry.

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Thank you to Kai Engel for making Evermore available for use with attribution.

Thank you to The U.S. Army Jazz Band for making Kelli's Number available in the creative commons.

Swears and Spoilers

Morgan and Megan from Oh no! Lit Class, try to talk Brontes and kind of succeed...

Megan's friend who wrote the story about the haunting of the second wife is called Monique, you can find her portfolio here: https://moniquemcintosh.com/category/fiction/

Thanks to U.S. Army Jazz Band for making Kelli's number available in the creative commons

Promo this week: 33% Pulp