Posts Tagged ‘vampires’
Making a Killing
A Fort Worth author turns a mythical, bloodsucking Texas town into big-time success.JIMMY FOWLER photos by robert hart
A former literary agent of Fort Worth novelist Roxanne Longstreet Conrad’s once told her: “You’re the kind of writer who pokes along doing OK until something you write hits big, and then you go right up there.”
Vampires in Ghost Town
Fort Worth novelist Rachel Caine offers the latest installment in her Morganville Vampires series.CAROLINE COLLIER
The undead, especially vampires, have become superstars in the fiction sections of bookstores in recent years. Anne Rice may have ushered in the era, but the Twilight saga has snared teens, tweens, and many of their parents. Th...
Eclipse: Lady Ante Bella
The third Twilight movie is the best so far, for what that’s worth.KRISTIAN LIN
The Twilight movies have frustrated me, not because they’re made out of junk but for the opposite reason. Stephenie Meyer’s mega-selling series of novels gets unfairly knocked because the fan base is mostly teen and pre-tee...
Imaginarium, Youth in Revolt Finally Out
KRISTIAN LINSome films go from blank page to your local movie screen relatively quickly; Up in the Air wrapped principal photography last spring, which is why it feels so timely. In other cases, exigent circumstances (better known as real ...
Cry Me A River … Of Blood
Jeff PrinceHBO’s vampire series “True Blood” presents a world in which mortals and immortals try to live side by side in harmony. Humans and vampires even become couples, and one thing always happens when people form romantic relati...
Blood and Snow
Even after 30 Days of Night, this film can’t put a new twist on the vampire genre.Kristian Lin
Since Bram Stoker’s Dracula was published 110 years ago, doing something new with vampires in any storytelling medium has gotten to be extremely difficult.