| #1brianusaJan 19, 2010 23:22:23 | Montague Summer's fame as an expert on the occult began in 1926 with the publication of his History of Demonology and Witchcraft followed by other studies of witches, vampires and werewolves; notably The Vampire: His Kith and Kin (1928) and The Vampire in Europe (1929). He also introduced to the public, as an editor, along with many other works, a reprint of The Discovery of Witches by the infamous Matthew Hopkins, and the first English translation of the classic fifteenth century treatise on witchcraft, Malleus Maleficarum. In later life he also wrote influential studies of the Gothic novel, another lifelong enthusiasm; notably The Gothic Quest: a History of the Gothic Novel (1938), and A Gothic Bibliography (1940). Much of Summers’ life remains in obscurity, many of his personal papers have been lost; yet he left an autobiography, The Galanty Show, that was published over thirty years after his death.
www.gothicpress.freeserve.co.uk/Montague...
At this website, the author explains the influence of Summer's on Stoker.
They knew of each other, Aleister Crowley was a contemporary of Summer's too.
I've been reading Summer's The Vampire: His Kith and Kin. www.sacred-texts.com/goth/vkk/index.htm
I've also been listening to the YouTube distributed (radio)interview of Sean Manchester. www.youtube.com/user/paranorma1palace#p/...
There's another tween movie coming out this year, about the Highgate vampire. By the way, the straight to video horror movie titled "Crowley" is NOT, I repeat, was NEVER intended to be a biography. It's complete fiction, only bearing the name of the man in the title of the release.
I found this webpage an interesting read on the human psychological condition, when legend tripping.
vampireresearchsociety.blogspot.com/2009...
Here's what I want to know. When the investigators go to Houska Castle near Prague...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Hunters_Inte...
I've read accounts from former Ghost Hunter stars, who claim the paranormal activity is faked, I've seen this online in taped interviews....
That particular episode broadcast this week as a repeat from last summer, showed a cameraman's perspective from the rafters of the attic, looking down on them (during analysis of the ghost phenomena). What was he doing up there? And why did the film of the event imply the cameraman was right next to them the whole time? Couldn't the sound of the stone being thrown back at them, be the second guy up in the rafters?? I digress, maybe it should be discussed at their forum and not here, but the point is...personal experiences aside, Houska Castle has vampires in gaseous forms.
They said it was haunted at the reveal, but at no time did they say vampire.
Anyway, people are incredibly interested in defying their rational perspectives on reality, because perhaps of a lack of faith, well...let's call this what it is...they want to meet an undead creature. And that's something I'm not sure is a good idea in all cases. Because of this...
www.holygrail-church.fsnet.co.uk/GASP.ht...
Logically, it appears to be a scientific method and illogically, it defies natural explanation at times, which makes it exceedingly popular, as you can tell just from the number of spin-offs on SyFy and elsewhere.
In his mind, Sean Manchester believes in vampires. But here's the point, when I read my Monster Manual for vampire...
99% of it looks like the actual description from antiquity. Y'know something. I appreciate that.
Not only as a fan of the gaming system, but as a truth seeker for things I don't quite understand.
Kith and Kin, is a scary read. Sean Manchester claims his camera would not photograph the vampire's body, until it had been 'killed'...and then, it simply crumbled to dust over the course of several shots with his 35mm. Was he lying?
I understand how Manchester thinks now. About how the body is animated by a spirit of Satan, but something I've noticed in his talks...is how he seems unclear, as to whether the infected blood, the pathogen as it were, doesn't take in the person bitten. That seems to be a curiousity addressed extensively in the Blade films, about what exactly it is...like the way zombies spread.
This undead creature is less a spirit I'd say, even for a devil, as it is simply just a killer in an abomination's form. Yet our pop culture idolizes the vampire, like it's a god from some mythos patheon. Making them as fast as Hermes, or showing them with the emotional platitudes of a sexual tryst.
I don't like this. It's not sacrosanct. But that's just an opinion of scholarly debate. Any thoughts? Is Holly-weird out of control?!
Who is going to set the record straight on the Divine?
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