Welcome to Celebrate Poe - Episode 365 - Dracula’s Guest, Part TwoAnd welcome to the second part and conclusion of Bram Stoker’s Dracula Guest.  As I looked there came a cold shiver in the air, and the snow began to...

Welcome to Celebrate Poe - Episode 363  - Dracula’s Guest, Part OneFinally - this podcast is beginning a series of episodes about Bram Stoker’s Dracula. First, I am going to delve into - at some detail - what is often felt to be...

Welcome to Celebrate Poe - Episode 362 - Poetry and DreamsI was looking through articles about Poe to find information for a future article regarding why do so many people read Edgar Allan Poe. And I found some great stuff and certai...

Welcome 361  Vampires and ReligionNow I was planning to do some Easter theme episodes on Celebrate Poe - yes there is a connection - and looked at the calendar - assuming that Easter took place in March or early April - bu...

Welcome to Celebrate Poe - Episode 360 - Dracula at ChurchWelcome back to Dracula at Church - and if you have not listened to the previous episode, it might really help you to understand some fascinating ideas about the unintended ro...

Welcome to Celebrate Poe - Episode 359 - Vampires and the Last SupperWhen I started this podcast, I assumed the topics of the Last Supper and Easter would have nothing to do with anything related to Poe - oh sure, we do have evidence...

Welcome to Celebrate Poe - my name is George Bartley, and this is episode 358 - Pre Dracula 2 or Calling Me By Your Name.The title of this episode - Calling Me By Your Name - is a variation on a phrase -  Call Me By Your N...

Welcome to Celebrate Poe - Episode 357 - Pre DraculaI promise you that after this and the following episode, I will begin a series of episodes about the big one - at least the big one in the field of vampirism - Bram Stoker’s Dracula...

Welcome to Celebrate Poe - Episode 355 - Poe and VampiresWhile Edgar Allan Poe didn't write about traditional vampires, his exploration of vampiric themes places his work within a broader context of vampiric literature, showcasing th...

Welcome to Celebrate Poe - Episode 355 - Why All the Fuss About DraculaEpisode 354 should be a relatively short episode - the subject is Stoker’s Dracula - and I want to briefly explore some reasons WHY Dracula is considered a great ...

Welcome to Celebrate Poe - Episode 354, Encountering Poe’s Ghost RevisitedI looked at the time I have left for podcasts this month, and realized that I had just enough for one more episode - and this will not be a long episode at all...

Welcome to Celebrate Poe - and this is episode 353 - Loathsome Mass of Detestable PutridityHello, my name is George Bartley, and the Ghost of Mr. Poe is here right beside me. I hope you have listened to the previous episode for secti...

Welcome to Celebrate Poe - Episode 352 - Poe’s Hoaxes, Part One Being April Fool’s day, today I want to look at Poe’s six hoax stories - in fact, Edgar Allan Poe approvingly called his time the “epoch of the hoax.” Even though P...

Welcome to Celebrate Poe - Episode 351 - From Feast of Blood -This is the final episode of Celebrate Poe - at least for now - devoted to Varney the Vampire.   Now, as mentioned in a previous episode, the entire work spans 876 do...

Welcome to Celebrate Poe - Be Content to Suffer - This is episode 350 of Celebrate Poe - a bit of a milestone for this podcast.  And I must admit that when I started Celebrate Poe, I had no idea I would make it this far - and there is s...

Welcome to Celebrate Poe - episode 349 - Varner (I mean, Varney) the VampireHope you have listened to episode 348 about Varney the Vampire but you might be asking yourself, How does Varney's sympathetic portrayal differ from other va...

Welcome to Celebrate Poe - Episode 348 Feast of BloodVarney the Vampire is an extremely influential work in the vampire genre, first appearing as a serialized gothic horror story between 1845 and 1847. The was well before Bram Stoker...

Welcome to Celebrate Poe - Episode 347 - The Origins of Vampires -Today I would like to delve into what is believed to be the beginnings of the vampire myth. So this specific episode will NOT be dealing with Dracula or Nosferatu, or ...

Welcome to Celebrate Poe - Episode 345 - Challenging Male AuthorityWell, I had planned for the previous episode to be the last one where I dealt with Carmilla - but I soon found out that the work was easy to get into, but hard to get...

Welcome to Celebrate Poe - This is episode 345 - Stirring Sexual DesireI was looking at the podcast episodes I have done, and realized that I had written three or more episodes for each subject.  But I only did two fo...

Welcome to Celebrate Poe - This is episode 344 - Leaving Me TremblingHope you are doing well, and I will just jump right into it -One of the most explicit passages in Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla that hints at lesbian desire, ...

Welcome to Celebrate 343 - The First Lesbian VampireAfter looking at some of the alleged crimes of Elizabeth - and by this time, I am ready to call her actions a part of folklore - I’d like to delve in a definitely fictional female c...

Welcome to Celebrate Poe - This is episode 342 - Confined to a CastleThis episode is the fourth episode of Celebrate Poe dealing with Elizabeth Bathory, the Hungarian countess accused of serial murder.  Now it was next to imposs...

Welcome to Celebrate Poe - Episode 341 - Liz in CourtWell, today’s episode continues an examination of Elizabeth Nadasdy and what might be called her torture trial - probably full of half-truths and political lies.First, the ...

Welcome to Celebrate Poe - Episode 340 - Teaching Torture Techniques?  Elizabeth Bathory is certainly a fascinating figure.  I guess that ultimately we will never know exactly what she did or did not do, but the reacti...