Apparently I really like The Toast except when they write about Jane Austen, because I feel like every piece I have read about Austen on the site has subtly irked me in some way. I read this piece a while ago (about the Jane Austen Centre in Bath), but this quotation has been going around Tumblr lately:

To see Jane Austen’s writing desk, you have ( Read more... )

Black and Deep Desires: William Shakespeare, Vampire Hunter. By, of all people, Graham Holderness.

http://www.tophat-books.com/books/black-deep-desires

From the website:

As the novel opens, William Shakespeare, recusant Catholic, joins Guy Fawkes and his cluster ( Read more... )

A review of a book entitled Zombie Island: A Shakespeare Undead Novel:

http://historicalnovelsociety.org/reviews/zombie-island-a-shakespeare-undead-novel/

Imagine that Shakespeare is a vampire, and that the Dark Lady he wrote about ( Read more... )

All I want to do today is watch "Amy's Choice"...

Instead I guess I'll go to the library or something, and stay away from the internet because I don't know when I'll be able to watch the series premiere of Doctor WhoI also had a really weird collection of dreams, including one where Dominic Cooper was playing an extremely rubbish vampire (that was ( Read more... )

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/9404717/Erotic-makeover-for-Jane-Eyre-and-Pride-and-Prejudice.htmlRead more... )

Also, this is a thing that exists, which kind of makes me want to die, a little:

Henry VIII: Wolfman
http://books.google.com/books/about/Henry_VIII_Wolfman.html?id=ZGX-kQAACAAJ

I almost forgot: this book has apparently been out for months, but I only saw it for the first time the other day, in the library. So:

Romeo and Juliet and Vampireshttp://www.harpercollins.com/books/Romeo-Juliet-Vampires/?isbn=9780061976247Read more... )

I worry about this sort of thing a lothttp://reasoningwithvampires.tumblr.com/post/1712198569Read more... )

Because they just won't stop coming. Yesterday my best friend alerted me to the presence of Emma and the Vampireshttp://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-45045-Jane-Austen-Sequel-Examiner~y2010m7d26-Review-Emma-and-the- ( Read more... )

Wuthering Bites
http://www.kensingtonbooks.com/finditem.cfm?itemid=17435

The website copy:

"What if the enigmatic hero of one of our most timeless love stories was part vampire? The answer lies in this haunting retelling of the classic tale of Catherine and ( Read more... )