I've known for a long time that the Sisters of Mercy song is not about vampires, but I've always thought that, with a title like Lucretia, words like "reflection", and phrases like "dancing the ghost" , it should be.

So here, courtesy of a train ride and an ipod, are the lyrics to Lucretia (the Vampire Version)
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I've decided, after seeing it a second time, that I really like Le Pacte des loups (Brotherhood of the Wolf). It's up there with 13th Warrior in the "historical pseudo-supernatural but darkly gritty" stakes. It is a little long, somewhat brutal, is almost too many movies crushed into one, and if you don't know French you need to watch the subtitles ( Read more... )

There are far too many vampire / werewolf / fey / hunter books, and even series of books, set in the modern world which all follow the same basic concepts and plots. Hamilton has spawned an entire genre. From the blurbs on Amazon, the vast majority of them seem to have been written by Mills & Boon writers looking for a new market. I've a read a ( Read more... )

Whitcoulls Lambton Quay had a stack of these books at 50% off making them basically NZD $20 so I got one coz it's fun and could almost be used as a prop for mashugenah's Mage character ( Read more... )

I"ve added one complete, and one as yet incomplete, entry to sebastian_beau's journal, my in-character journal for Sebastian Beauforte, from jarratt_gray's Victorian Nights game ( Read more... )

( Mmmmmmm )