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Sources & Influences Vampire stories have always proven quite popular. In fact, Bram Stoker’s Dracula has never gone out of print – a rare feat for a novel! -- and has been adapted to film more than any other fictional text, over 40 times (Melton, Introduction). But have vampires always been popular? Actually, we find their stories so common today that it seems like they’ve been with us since forever. But that’s not the case. The Combat of the Giaour and Hassan (1835) by Eugène Delacroix,...

...comes to a radio near you.... Ghosts, a mysterious stranger, and what is going on with that hat? Tune in ( see below ) to find out in our latest auricular adventure, as it comes to radio this spring. Our latest, The Ghost of Vauxhall Walk , combines two 1882 stories by Charlotte Riddell; alongside its ration of ghosts, there is also a mysterious stranger, and what in the world is going on with that hat? Tune in at 95.5 FM, or go online to kcbpradio.org . What’s more, KCBP Radio is...

A Literary Tour Through Victorian London Celebrating Christina Rossetti's birthday earlier this month with a walking tour. “She is the finest woman-poet since Mrs. Browning, by a long way; and in artless art, if not in intellectual impulse, is greatly Mrs. Browning’s superior.” (Dante Gabriel Rossetti) The poet Christina Rossetti, is perhaps best remembered for 'Goblin Market', 'Remember', and 'In the Bleak Midwinter'. The daughter of Italian poet,scholar and political exile Gabriele...