How vampires Work — Out of obligation, Chuck and Josh mention Twilight, but it is the longstanding vampire lore that gets the most attention in this examination of how the bloodsucking undead evolved from baby-stealing demonesses to suave counts in our collective psyche.
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Caustic Soda: Vlad the Impaler
In another installment of our “Evil Dudes in History” we explore the history and legend of the Wallachian voivod Vlad Tepes, the inspiration for the most famous vampire of all time. Plus: Which is the lesser of two evils: being impaled Vlad style, or being left to die of exposure on the top of a mountain as an Incan sacrifice?
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John Landis: Monsters in the Movies
Elvis Mitchell talks to director John Landis about his new book, Monsters in the Movies.
http://www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/tt/tt120118john_landis_monsters
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Mondo Diablo Episode 324: The Christian Response to Twilight: Abstinence-Only, or Wicked Sorcery?
Some You-Tubers, Christians, answer that pressing question: "What do Christians think about ‘Twilight?’" The world needs an answer!
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To The Best of Our Knowledge: Monsters
http://www.wpr.org/book/100725a.cfm
SEGMENT 1:
Here there by monsters is what it used to say on the edges of maps, and it describes the show pretty well. We start cartoonist Lynda Barry, who reminisces about her favorite monsters. Then we continue with Justin Cronin, whose novel "The Passage" has been described as "an engrossingly horrirfic account of a post-apocalyptic America." He tells Jim Fleming the idea came out of a discussion with his nine-year-old daughter.
SEGMENT 2:
Stephen Asma teaches philosophy at Columbia College in Chicago. He talks to Anne Strainchamps about his book "On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears." Joshua Blu Buhs is an independent scholar and the author of "Bigfoot: The Life and Times of a Legend." But he tells Steve Paulson he doesn’t really think the creature exists.
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Richard Holmes is fascinated by what he calls "The Age of Wonder." The subtitle of his book is "how the romantic generation discovered the beauty and the terror of science," and he tells Steve Paulson about how Mary Shelley’s "Frankenstein" came directly out of the scientific climate of the time.