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Robert Eighteen-Bisang
Robert Eighteen-Bisang (1947 - September 29, 2020) was a Canadian author and scholar who was one of the world's foremost authorities on vampire literature and mythology. His book ''Bram Stoker's Notes for Dracula: A Facsimile Edition'', which was written with Elizabeth Miller, won the Lord Ruthven Award. The "Ruthven," as it is often called, is awarded annually for the most outstanding work in vampire fiction or scholarship. Other books by Eighteen-Bisang include ''Vampire Stories'', which includes vampire stories by Arthur Conan Doyle: ''The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire'', ''The Captain of the Polestar'', ''John Barrrington Cowles'', and '' The Parasite'', along with ''The Adventure of the Illustrious Client ''– which Eighteen-Bisang claimed is a rationalized version of Dracula – and four more stories with tenuous connections to vampires. ''Publishers Weekly'' called the book "a stretch" and something "only completionists are likely to add this to their collections." P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. Typically deployed in symmetric pairs, an individual bracket may be identified as a 'left' or 'right' bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the Writing system#Directionality, directionality of the context. Specific forms of the mark include parentheses (also called "rounded brackets"), square brackets, curly brackets (also called 'braces'), and angle brackets (also called 'chevrons'), as well as various less common pairs of symbols. As well as signifying the overall class of punctuation, the word "bracket" is commonly used to refer to a specific form of bracket, which varies from region to region. In most English-speaking countries, an unqualified word "bracket" refers to the parenthesis (round bracket); in the United States, the square bracket. Glossary of mathematical sym ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dracula
''Dracula'' is a novel by Bram Stoker, published in 1897. As an epistolary novel, the narrative is related through letters, diary entries, and newspaper articles. It has no single protagonist, but opens with solicitor Jonathan Harker taking a business trip to stay at the castle of a Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula. Harker escapes the castle after discovering that Dracula is a vampire, and the Count moves to England and plagues the seaside town of Whitby. A small group, led by Abraham Van Helsing, hunt Dracula and, in the end, kill him. ''Dracula'' was mostly written in the 1890s. Stoker produced over a hundred pages of notes for the novel, drawing extensively from Transylvanian folklore and history. Some scholars have suggested that the character of Dracula was inspired by historical figures like the Wallachian prince Vlad the Impaler or the countess Elizabeth Báthory, but there is widespread disagreement. Stoker's notes mention neither figure. He found the name ''D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
21st-century Canadian Non-fiction Writers
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Canadian Book Publishers (people)
Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of French and then the much larger British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian identity. Canada has also been strongly influenced by its linguistic, geographic, and e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020 Deaths
This is a list of deaths of notable people, organised by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in ) and then linked here. 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 See also * Lists of deaths by day The following pages, corresponding to the Gregorian calendar, list the historical events, births, deaths, and holidays and observances of the specified day of the year: Footnotes See also * Leap year * List of calendars * List of non-standard ... * Deaths by year {{DEFAULTSORT:deaths by year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Sequeira
Christopher Sequeira (also published as Chris G.C. Sequeira, Christopher G.C. Sequeira, C.G.C. Sequeira) is a Sydney-based Australian editor, writer and artist who works predominantly in the speculative fiction (horror, fantasy, science fiction, super-hero) and mystery realms. His published work includes poetry, prose (especially short fiction), and comic-book scripts. Sequeira's creator-owned work includes "Sherlock Holmes: Dark Detective" (with co-creators Dave Elsey and Philip Cornell), ''Pulse of Darkness'', ''Rattlebone: The Pulp-Faced Detective'' and ''The Borderlander''. He has also written for American publishers, notably contributing a Dazzler story, "I'm Gonna Stake You, Sucka" in ''X-Men: Curse of the Mutants – X-Men vs. Vampires'' No. 1. This story also features a character, Sheba Sugarfangs, invented by Sequeira for Marvel Comics. In 2010, Sequeira released ''Pulse of Darkness: The Vampire Syndrome'' graphic novel, a 140-page graphic novel illustrated by Kurt St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosemary Guiley
Rosemary Ellen Guiley (July 8, 1950 - July 18, 2019) was an American writer on topics related to spirituality, the occult, and the paranormal. She was also a radio show host, a certified hypnotist, a board director of the "National Museum of Mysteries and Research" and the "Foundation for Research into Extraterrestrial Encounters", and a "Lifetime Achievement Award" winner from the Upper Peninsula Paranormal Research Society, Michigan. She has written more than 49 books, including ten encyclopedias. Guiley died suddenly on Thursday, July 18, 2019. Works Her works include ''Atlas of the Mysterious in North America'' (1995) – a listing of places in Canada and the US associated with mysterious occurrences; ''The Encyclopedia of Witches and Witchcraft''; ''Harper's Encyclopedia of Mystical & Paranormal Experience'' – a reference book on topics related to spirituality, mythology and New Age; and ''The Encyclopedia of Angels''. In 2011, Guiley published ''Talking to the Dead'' vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline Joan (Kay) Picart
Caroline Joan S. Picart is a Filipino-born American academic who has written and edited numerous books and anthologies on philosophy and cultural studies, especially horror film. She is also a lawyer and had a radio show, ''The Dr. Caroline (Kay) Picart Show''. In 2011, she received the Lord Ruthven Award, non-fiction category, for the book ''Dracula in Visual Media Film, Television, Comic Book and Electronic Game Appearances, 1921-2010'', co-authored with John Edgar Browning. Early life and education Picart was born in Nueva Vizcaya, Philippines. Her father, Robert, has a Filipino-French-American ancestry, and her mother, Anarose, a Filipino-Chinese-Spanish background. She was active during the 1986 People's Power Revolution that overthrew Ferdinand Marcos. Picart has drawn from this experience in several of her published works. Picart graduated with a B.S. in Biology in 1987, and an M.A. in Philosophy from the Ateneo de Manila University in 1989, while teaching as a univer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Edgar Browning
John Edgar Browning (born October 14, 1980) is an American author, editor, and scholar known for his nonfiction works about the horror genre and vampires in film, literature, and culture. Previously a visiting lecturer at the Georgia Institute of Technology, he is now a professor of liberal arts at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Atlanta, Georgia. Browning is considered an "expert on vampires specializing in the Dracula figure in film, literature, television, and popular culture." His works expound upon Dracula, horror, vampires, the supernatural, the un-dead, Bram Stoker, and gothic and cultural theory. Browning has appeared as an expert vampire and horror scholar on, or served as a consultant for, multiple documentary television series, including: National Geographic Channel's '' Taboo USA'', Discovery Channel's '' William Shatner's Weird or What?'', the seven-part AMC documentary series '' Eli Roth's History of Horror'', and History Channel's ''The UnXplained'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Dalby
Richard Lawrence Dalby (15 April 1949 – 4 May 2017) was an editor and literary researcher noted for his anthologies of ghost stories. Early life Richard Dalby was born in London on 15 April 1949 to Tom, a publishing editor, and Nancy, an amateur artist. He was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's School from the age of 7 when he also began to take an interest in supernatural fiction. He was diagnosed with diabetes at the age of 16. He did not attend university.Richard Dalby. '''', 1 June 2017. Retrieved 23 July 2017. Career Dalby's early career was spent as a bookseller in bookshops, including |
Transylvanian Society Of Dracula
The Transylvanian Society of Dracula (TSD) is a cultural-historic, non-profit, non-governmental organization. Its members include Romanian and international scholars, folklorists, historians, esoterists, writers, cultural anthropologists, and individuals interested in comparative religion, magic and mythology. The TSD organizes scholarly activities both in Romania and abroad, as well as tours to sites of TSD interest in Romania. Some high ranked Romanian members make money out of the touristic activities of the organization, through the Company of Mysterious Journeys tourist agency. Modifications to this agency have occurred since the founder Nicolae Paduraru died. The Halloween 2011 tour, for example, did not include Bran Castle or Curtea Veche -in spite of what was published in their web site-, but it included a beauty pageant. One of the Romanian members of TSD working at the agency was one of the presenters of such pageant. History TSD was founded in the early 1990s by a group ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
