'Introduction: the Cost of Living' by Michael Sims Obviously I would not dream of assuming that Bram read every story in this book, but for some stories it's clear from tropes which he absorbed and replicated that he did, so anything Classical sitting alongside them is of particular interest.
I already knew that much of both Polidori's 'The Vampyre' and Byron's fragment (here called 'The End of my Journey') take place amongst Grecian ruins, for example, but wanted to see whether the same equation persisted beyond high Romantic literature. That made it a very useful research resource for the paper I am writing about Classical references in Dracula, as it would allow me to get a sense of the extent to which they were a standard characteristic of the genre before Bram wrote. It basically aims to trace the evolution of vampire mythology, mainly in fiction but also in accounts of real folk beliefs, up to the point when Dracula was written and a little way beyond. Not because he had dreams of stardom, but because he had a genuine love for the craft.Strange_complexThis is short story collection subtitled 'A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Vampire Stories' which I bagged for a bargain price at the Dracula Society auction in Whitby last autumn ( LJ / DW). Even if he had to keep the camera rolling after a huge flub in order to conserve film, he would do whatever it took to complete his film. Watching some of his films, it is clear that Wood didn't quite have the skill required to bring his films to life, but this didn't stop him. Oftentimes, he would hold fundraisers of sorts in an attempt to find finances for his zany visions. RELATED: Here's Every Johnny Depp & Tim Burton Movie Collaboration, RankedĪ vast majority of his movies were financed by himself. Wood was never quite able to break into the Hollywood scene in ways he had hoped, so he took matters into his own hands. He made it his life's mission to create movies and bring his imagination to life. The monster films from the '40s and movies such as Citizen Kane (which even back then was known as one of the best films of all time) lit a fire inside him that he could never quite extinguish. He began to make movies because he had a burning passion for the medium. Ed Wood didn't get into the film business because he thought he could make a quick buck.
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