Vampires (19 page)

Sleep well and dream constantly.

Charles E Butler England November 2013

Afterword
Ongoing thanks to all those mentioned in my previous books. I also add Ian Foxon for his relentless search for the short story that haunted me for years,
The Vampire Cat (1936),
Alan Friswell for reminding me that Peter Melrose did the great matte paintings of Dracula’s castle in
Dracula Has Risen From the Grave
, Patricia Hutchinson for her intrepid search regarding facts on David Peel the Baron Meinster. Steven Smith for spotting my mistake in
The Romance of Dracula,
concerning the nationality of
Dracula contra Frankenstein/Dracula VS Frankenstein (1971)
actor Howard Vernon. I mis-identified him as an Australian, but fellow Aussie Steven corrected me. Mr Vernon is in fact Swiss. He was born Mario lippert in 1914 in Baden, Switzerland and died in Paris, France in 1996 aged 82. Mr Smith also supplied me with books and Hammer trading cards from his own collections for reference. I acknowledge the Internet as my major source of reference but books consulted – mainly for illustrations - during the execution of this book include;
The Hammer Story
by Marcus Hearn,
The Illustrated Vampire Movie Guide
by Stephen Jones,
The Vampire Cinema
by David Pirie,
The Aurum Horror Film Encyclopedia
by Phil Hardy
The Movie Treasury of Horror
by Alan G Frank and T
he House of Horror; the complete story of Hammer films
by Allen Eyles, Robert Adkinson and Nicholas Fry. Again, final and ongoing thanks go to my sister Tricia, for taking care of me and administering to my ever-growing list of Facebook tribute pages (
Count Dracula, Werewolf, Monsters of Frankenstein, Fans of Vincent Price, Fans of Basil Rathbone, Fans of James Cagney
and
The Strange Case of
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
) as I soldiered on in my own fantasy worlds, watching movies and typing reviews to breathe life into the present volume.

About the author

Charles E Butler was born and raised in the Yorkshire town of Leeds in the UK. He is a writer, actor and an artist of independent comic books. He quickly developed a taste for the fantastic through comic books and the movies. He makes short films under his Su asti banner and submits them to festivals across the world He has written vampire essays for various sites on the Internet and he has been published in notable horror magazines (
The Eerie Digest,
Diabolique, We Belong Dead
and
Indie Judge)
and vampire anthology books;
The Lure of the Vampire (2011)
and
Vampires; From Romance to Rippers (2013)
His first book,
The Romance of Dracula
,
(2010),
fast became an internet sensation. Not only did Butler painstakingly research and write the book, he also illustrated, edited and decided to self-publish to kindle pad thus starting his promotional campaign.
Vampires Everywhere; the Rise of the Movie UnDead
followed in 2012
.
His next book completes the quadrilogy and concentrates on the hairy creatures of the night in movies,
Werewolves: the Children of the Full Moon
are in preparation. His special tribute pages
Count Dracula, Werewolf, The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
and the
Monsters of Frankenstein
can be found on Facebook.