A Sense of Doubt blog post #2079 - HALLOWEEN STUFF FOR CLASS - poems, STEPHEN KING, and VAMPIRES

A Sense of Doubt blog post #2079 - HALLOWEEN STUFF FOR CLASS - poems, STEPHEN KING, and VAMPIRES

https://theculturednerd.org/2020/05/first-look-at-stephen-kings-the-stand-tv-adaptation-revealed/

I did a Halloween themed set of value-packed presentations in class today with my usual book recommendations, poems, and songs.

The pre-Halloween class started as it always does with the Bauhaus classic "Bela Lugosi's Dead."

Shared via this mix:

A Sense of Doubt blog post #1349 - Bereft in Deathly Bloom - Halloween 2018 - Musical Monday on Wednesday 1810.31

As featured in the 1983 film by Top Gun director Tony Scott entitled The Hunger with Catherine Deneuve, Susan Sarandon, and David Bowie.

THE HUNGER IMDB

THE HUNGER - WIKIPEDIA

http://politicsslashletters.org/commentary/covering-bauhaus/

BAUHAUS - "BELA LUGOSI'S DEAD"

Bela Lugosi Is Dead

Bauhaus

White on white translucent black capes
Back on the rack
Bela Lugosi's dead
The bats have left the bell tower
The victims have been bled
Red velvet lines the black box
Bela Lugosi's dead
Undead undead undead
The virginal brides file past his tomb
Strewn with time's dead flowers
Bereft in deathly bloom
Alone in a darkened room
The count
Bela Logosi's dead
Undead undead undead

Songwriters: Daniel Gaston Ash / David John Haskins / Kevin Michael Dompe / Peter John Murphy

Bela Lugosi Is Dead lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #1125 - NYE 2016 Tomb of Dracula shirt - Throwback Thursday for 1810.25

Next, I talked about vampires as seen in the link above. I continue to maintain that Marvel's The Tomb Of Dracula from the 1970s by Marv Wolfman and Gene Colan is one of the single best horror comics of all time. I am due to make a massive tribute to that amazing book. By the end of the year, I am going to do that.

I am ashamed to admit that I was tired and attributed the 1931 Dracula film with Bela Lugosi to Warner Brothers rather than Universal. Terrible mistake. Moment of shame.


SO I ASKED MY STUDENTS, WHO IS YOUR FAVORITE DRACULA??


Bela Lugosi - 1931 - Universal

Christopher Lee - 1958 - Hammer Horror Series

Gary Oldman - 1992 - Coppola Film

NOW - 2018 - from Warren Ellis' Netflix Castlevania

And I should have added:

NOSFERATU the Vampyre - 1979





Which was the model for the vampire in Salem's Lot that I shared about next.

Onto books, as I shared the I reading Stephen King's 1998 novel Bag of Bones right now, which is a terrific ghost story. I went through my usual schtick about reacting negatively to hype (except for JK Rowling who lived up to it) and how Stephen King is the best (or one of the best) of the blockbuster, best seller, popular novelists. I also talked about his book On Writing, which I just re-read for like the dozenth time.

AS I shared, my favorite Stephen King novel is The Stand, and after reading it some time in the early 1980s after its 1978 publication, I read the expanded 1990 edition, which I think was a bit over done.

Despite the fact that the novel's title comes from a line in Bruce Springsteen's "Jungleland," the last song on the classic 1975 album Born to Run. 

Though I love the book for the apocalyptic result of the super flu pandemic and the characters that King defines with such clarity and verisimilitude, I am not as crazy about the second half of the book and the "stand" against Randall Flagg. And yet, I read it.

Though the original mini-series was good (and had a great cast), I am very excited for the new series on the CBS streaming network starting in December.

Of course, for scary and vampires, I had to share with my students about Salem's Lot, which patterned its vampire on the classic Nosferatu.

Great book: scary!

And of course, no discussion of scare factors and Stephen King would be complete with mentioning the novel The Shining, first adapted to film by Stanley Kubrick in 1980: IMDB and WIKI.

I explained that the King book is very different than the Kubrick film, and so Stephen King wrote and produced a TV mini series that was more faithful to the novel in 1997. It won many critical accolades and two Emmy awards.

But the Kubrick films is one of the most frightening things I have ever seen, and I saw it for the first time, at midnight, the night I graduated from high school after drinking hard alcohol for the first time (gin and tonic).

Also, I use an image of that carpet pattern as my phone background.

ALSO ALSO, the exteriors for the Overlook Hotel were filmed at Mt Hood, near here in Oregon.

And then the poem. I tried reading Poe's "Ulalume" (which will be tomorrow's blog post), and so I switched to my favorite Emily Dickinson that is equally frightening.

THIS POEM - 

“The Soul Has Bandaged Moments” - Emily Dickinson

Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #1112 - reprint - soul has bandaged

GOOD BUT NOT MY FAVORITE

“I Felt a Funeral in my Brain” - Emily Dickinson

TOO LONG TO READ IN CLASS

“Ulalume” by Edgar Allen Poe

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