Creature Feature: Bunyip
Bunyip, kianpraty, yowie...just some of the names to describe the beast that lurks within the swamps and billabongs of the Australian outback. The bunyip is a creature of Aboriginal myth [...]
Creature Feature: Succubi and Incubi
For my next Creature Feature instalment, I had intended to do something on souleaters and the succubus and incubus popped into my head. However, I didn’t realise that I was [...]
Creature Feature: Dracula
He's the daddy of all vampires, the lord of the undead we all hark back to. His name is Dracula. Or Dracul. Or Dra. Or D. (Sorry, went off on an Eddie Izzard tangent.) But despite his fame and his god-like place in Gothic literature, I doubt many people have taken the time to read the original story. It's kind of like the Bible. Plenty of us refer to it (and some of us even profess to live by it) but how many of us have actually read it? (And just for the record, I read the Bible. Fascinating stuff. Really.)