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Vampires deliver
horror, excitement
Summer, for some reason,
seems to be the ideal time to
get yourself good and fright
ened. Maybe making your blood
run cold is a good way to combat
the heat. Maybe people like to con
trast all the brightness of the season
with something dark and brooding.
Whatever the reason, horror is at its
height in the summer months, so
here are a few reading suggestions.
“Frankenstein,” by Mary Shelley,
is a good place to start. The story of
the book’s creation is almost as fa
mous as the book itself. One night, a
newlywed Shelley had a nightmare
that soon b^ame the basis for the
first true horror novel. It’s a great
piece of romantic fiction that has
been adapted to more movies than
one cares to remember.
Speaking of film adaptations,
“Dracula,” by Bram Stoker, stands
next to anything by Shakespeare in
terms of adaptations. At last count,
the formidable Count Dracula had
been brought to the screen more than
130 times, making him the most
adapted literary character ever.
Adaptations aside, the book it
self stands as a landmark of not
only horror but of literature as a
whole, with its scrapbook-style
narrative built from the journals
and letters of its characters. This
did for vampires what “Franken
stein” did for mad scientists.
In 1917, journalist and short-story
writer Ambrose Bierce left America
for Mexico and was never heard from
again. Thus was gone one of the most
cynical, scathing writers in Ameri
can history, as well as one of its best
creators of short horror fiction..
Bierce’s works stand as some of
the most technically well done
Guest Commentary
Ryan
Nyburg_
short stories, and his almost ni
hilistic world view is one that per
meates in horror fiction even today.
“The Ghost and Horror Stories of
Ambrose Bierce” is a good place for
horror fanatics to start with this
criminally unknown writer.
H.P. Lovecraft made a living pub
lishing his bizarre stories in cheap
pulp magazines through the 1920s
and remained relatively unknown
in his lifetime. Now he is widely
considered to be the most influen
tial horror writer of the century,
and his stories have inspired
countless other writers.
Lovecraft’s stories are occasion
ally adapted to film, most famously
as 1985’s “Re-Animator.” There are
many collections of Lovecraft’s fic
tion available, and almost any one
of them will do.
“Hell House,” by Richard Mathe
son, stands as one of the true clas
sics of modern horror. Matheson’s
stories have always worked at rec
onciling classic horror tales — in
volving vampires and haunted
houses—with more modern view
points and scientific explanations.
It never worked so well as here,
with the granddaddy of all haunted
house stories. This was adapted ef
fectively to film in 1973 as the
moody and atmospheric “The Leg
end of Hell House,” which is worth
seeing in its own right.
Ryan Nyburg is a freelance columnist.
His views do not necessarily represent
those of the Emerald.
Alternative stories
educate, entertain
For those with a hunger to ex
plore other cultures and per
spectives from home — or
from a homey bookstore like Moth
er Kali’s—these semi-altemative
picks will whet your reading pallet.
“The Com
plete Hothead
Paisan: Homi
cidal Lesbian
Terrorist” is a
charmingly vi
olent comic
book series
built on the
quick-witted
political com
mentary of au
thor Diane
DiMassa.
Reporter In one of Di
Massa’s classic
scenes, Hothead is speeding in her
car with her cat, Chicken, with one
hand on the wheel. She’s leaning out
the window, pointing a gun with a
huge barrel at another car that isn’t
shown. Hothead, with her enormous
eyes and manic grin, is saying:
“I’m not your fuckin’ spritzhead
girlfriend.”
“Hothead,” along with a fine array
of alternative reading, is available for
hard-core fans of radical works or
the newly curious at Mother Kali’s
Books, a feminist bookstore.
Hothead goes berserk after an
overdose of television and caffeine
and goes on a killing rampage,
which climaxes and then plateaus as
brief moments of lucidity smooth
out her rage. Her cat (a vocal person
ality in the series), and her friend,
Roz, often inspire Hothead to have
calm moments, but the lull never
lasts, which keeps fans happy.
For those who enjoy cartoon
bombs or simply long to shatter
the dominant paradigm, this is
the perfect read.
For those who shudder away
from even comic-book mayhem
and killing, there is a plethora of
other alternative reads at Mother
Kali’s. Mother Kali’s includes well
stocked sections such as transgen
der, women and cancer, lesbian
plays, tarot, as well as shelves full
of women’s Asian, African Ameri
can, Latin and Jewish works.
Leslie Feinberg, a transgender
icon, has a couple of books in stock,
including the classic “Stone Butch
Blues,” a Bildungsroman for a
strong-willed “tranny” writer.
Mother Kali’s Asian section offers
the much acclaimed “Tripmaster
Monkey” by Maxine Hong Kingston,
a literary work set in San Francisco
in the 1960s about an Asian man
who aims to defy stereotypes by ex
ploring his most atypical identities.
The protagonist, Whitman Ag
Sing, can adopt any one of his “72
personalities” simply by changing
his clothes.
Sandra Cisneros’ “The House On
Mango Street,” another literary de
light, explores issues of race, class
and gender, and is available in the
Latina section at Mother Kali’s.
For those whose tastes run to
tarot, the feminist bookstore has a
wall of books on the subject, in
cluding “Tarot of the Spirit,” by
Pamela Eakins, Ph.D.
Anyone with an appetite for psy
chic wanderings, other cultures or
lifestyles will probably dig these
tasty picks.
Contact the reporter
at jilliandaiey@dailyemerald.com.