Download Battle of Axis and Race to Starport Season Two of 13th Age organized play kicked off with Race to Starport, which features a bizarre and creepy new threat to the Dragon Empire. We’ve updated the Organized Play Google Doc to include download links to Race to Starport and The Battle of Axis, the grand finale […]
Dracula Has Risen From the Grave (1968) Director: Freddie Francis Dracula: Christopher Lee A peculiar blend of apathy and attention makes this perhaps the most frustrating of the Hammer Draculas. Anthony Hinds (writing as “John Elder”) cares so little about the script that he doesn’t even bother to name Ewan Hooper’s weak Renfielded priest, and […]
Adam Gauntlett (aka Karloff), the author of Dulce et Decorum Est, Soldiers of Pen and Ink and a number of Trail of Cthulhu adventures, is creating fiction and RPG material over on his new Patreon page. As well as Pelgrane Press, Adam has written for the Escapist Magazine, Chaosium, Miskatonic River, Pagan Publishing and Atlas Games, among others. You […]
The Batman vs. Dracula (2005) Director: Michael Goguen Dracula: Peter Stormare A few truths: Doug Moench’s graphic novel Batman & Dracula: Red Rain is a superior Batman vs. Dracula story. It could not have been made into a children’s animated cartoon. Which (despite a good bit of blood and a shocking – heh – death […]
A Mutant City Blues Scenario Premise Backstory: The local chapter of the Genetic Action Front has long been a lightning rod for tension between the city’s enhanced and unaltered communities. The Crime: When a recent recruit to the organization is found murdered in its offices, slumped over a photocopier, its enemies exult in the scandal. […]
Nosferatu (1979) Director: Werner Herzog Dracula: Klaus Kinski “For me, genre means an intensive, almost dreamlike stylization on screen, and I feel the vampire genre is one of the richest and most fertile cinema has to offer. There is fantasy, hallucination, dreams and nightmares, visions, fear, and of course, mythology.” — Werner Herzog, giving us […]
House of Frankenstein (1944) Director: Erle C. Kenton Dracula: John Carradine “The world I see is far away. Yet very near. A strange and beautiful world … in which one may be dead … and yet alive.” — Rita Hussman (Anne Gwynne), unconsciously giving us the epigraph for the entire Universal horror series John Carradine’s first appearance as Dracula (of at […]
Dracula’s Curse (2002) Director: Roger Young Dracula: Patrick Bergin This production began on Italian TV (shot on video) as Il Bacio di Dracula (The Kiss of Dracula); I watched the Artisan DVD version entitled Dracula’s Curse, which cuts about an hour out of the run time because I just said Artisan. (Some of it shows […]
In the latest episode of their volcanic podcast, Ken and Robin talk villain clocks, HPL film fest, obeying canon and the death of Pompeii.
It’s time once again for another installment of Things We Left Out of The Dracula Dossier, our popular series of posts not so much cataloguing our mental lapses as offering you, our beloved gamer audience, more free content for your own Dracula Dossier games! (Available for pre-order now!) In this particular case, I was inspired […]