Tag Archive | Otherness in literature

Wolf In Book’s Clothing

Though Halloween is over, a lesser-known horror-related occasion is fast approaching. November 8th is the birthday of the man who wrote vampires before it was cool, Bram Stoker. Today would be the Dracula author’s 165th birthday, so I thought I would take the opportunity to discuss censorship’s particular obsession with the horror genre. Though Stoker died a hundred years ago, his work is no less relevant and no less inflammatory.

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