VOCABULARY :

• Vampire (thesaurus.com) :
  

  Definition:	spirit of the dead
  Synonyms:	apparition, appearance, banshee, daemon,demon, devil, eidolon, ethereal being, haunt,incorporeal being, kelpie, manes, phantasm,phantom, poltergeist, revenant, shade, shadow, soul, specter, spook, vampire , vision, visitor,wraith, zombie
  Antonyms:	being, entity

  
  
• A vampire = "A reanimated corpse that is believed to rise from the grave at night to suck the blood of sleeping people."
  (answers.com)

• Terminology & Lingo (sanguinarius.org)
  ex. : "Self-Mutilation Syndrome (SMS):
  "A psychological condition which has apparently begun to grow among American youth. Sufferers of SMS, also known as cutters, feel the need to cut into their flesh and watch themselves bleed..."

FACTS :

• Vampires (society6.com)
  "Designer Ben Douglas illustrated a dozen pop culture vampires into one art print. Can you name them all?" (neatorama.com)

  

• Incredible Vampire Hunting Kit From The 1800’s
  "Travelers in the 19th century would purchase ‘vampire hunting kits’ in preparation for their travels to Eastern Europe.
  The kits would contain a wooden stake, Bible, crucifix, pistol with lead bullets, gunpowder, garlic and glass vials that held various concoctions to ward off vampires..."
  (all-that-is-interesting.com)

  

• Vampires "are mythological or folkloric beings who subsist by feeding on the life essence (generally in the form of blood) of living creatures, regardless of whether they are undead or a living person..."
  (Wikipedia)

• Why a Fascination of Vampires? (associatedcontent.com)

• Stephen King explains how to make vampires 'scary again' (guardian.co.uk)
  
  

• Vampires Suck - Actually, they don't. And that's the problem. (slate.com)
  
  

• Why Vampires Never Die (nytimes.com)
  
  

LISTENING :

• What are vampires? (intermediate)
  + Vocabulary + Worksheet
  (englishryan.com)
• From 'Dracula' to 'Twilight,' Vampires Evolve With the Times
  "In books, movies and TV shows, why does the public love to sink its teeth into a good vampire story?"
  (manythings.org)

LESSON PLANS :

• The Vampire Lesson with a worksheet (chrisspeck.wordpress.com)

  

• Vampires : my own Gothic tale - Séquence pour 4ème section Européenne par  Jean-Sébastien Dot - UPDATED
  "Cette séquence comprend 16 séances, et autant de documents prêts à l’emploi.
  Tâche finale : écrire une fiction de style gothique pour aboutir à un recueil de fictions en version papier et version numérique.
  Les tâches intermédiaires comprennent la lecture d’une oeuvre complète (le Dracula en version simplifiée de Penguin Readers), une introduction au style gothique, un travail sur les discours direct et indirect, des repères méthodologiques pour devenir des lecteurs plus efficaces, des repères historiques et géographiques pour ne pas confondre le Dracula "historique" et la création de Bram Stoker, une comparaison du début du livre de Stoker et du début du film de Coppola..."
  (Ac. Toulouse)

  

WEBQUESTS :

• Vampires - a webquest
  "The name Dracula brings up dark memories in our mind: blood, vampires and vampire hunters, forests and wolves, ancient castles in the Carpathians and tyranical leaders capable of all sorts of evil acts.
  There is a lot of myth in this issue and, probably because of it, people like it. Did Count Dracula really exist or is it a legend? What is Romania like? Are there different versions of Dracula´s story? ....
  Today you are going to start a search in which you will have to find out the truth behind the legend."
  (isabelperez.com)

• Dracula -the webquest
  "By the end of the webquest, your group is supposed to prepare abrief oral presentation for your mates in the classroom, explaining what you learned about Dracula, the Vampire..."
  (draculawebquest.blogspot.com)
  
  

• Dracula: A Webquest
  "This webquest is composed of four parts.
  For the first two parts we will be analyzing our own preconceptions of vampires, analyzing the different types of vampires and categorizing the ones described in folklore, fiction, and film.
  For the last two tasks, we will be using Historical and Psychoanalytic Criticisms to gain different perspectives of the novel."
  (d.umn.edu)
  
  

INTERACTIVE GAMES :

• The vampire quiz : Find out if you are a Vampire or not. (vampire-quiz.com)
  
  

SUPERSTITIONS:

• Common superstitions : Garlic protects from evil spirits and vampires.
  (csicop.org)

• Vampire Superstitions (angelfire.com)
  + a list of different vampire-like creatures found the world over.

STORIES :

• "Sister Mary Dracula"

  Gerry Mooney is the creator of the Flash animation "Sister Mary Dracula".
  He says : "  I've created a graphic novel about the same characters and as a special treat the whole story is posted online just for the Halloween season.
  It's 103 pages and expands the story that I began in the animation."
  
  Read the story. (Click on the right hand)
  Watch the Flash animation.
  
  See the sketchbook.
  (sistermarydracula.com)

  

• Vampire stories (bbc.co.uk)

LITERATURE :

• Literature - Worksheet :
  Dracula's Guest (Bram Stoker - Idée d'exploitation)
  (Ac. Lyon)

• Dracula "is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, featuring as its primary antagonist the vampire Count Dracula."
  (Wikipedia)
  
  

DRACULA by Bram Stoker retold by Margaret Torner - intermediate level - with a GLOSSARY
(macmillaneducationbookstore.com)

Extract from Dracula by Bram Stoker, 1897 (bbc.co.uk)

Bram Stoker's Dracula (neatorama.com)

• The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire by Arthur Conan Doyle, 1924 (bbc.co.uk)
  "Sherlock Holmes is presented with a most unnatural mystery in Arthur Conan Doyle's classic tale."
  
  
  
  
  
• A Short Guide To Vampires
  "Ask anyone and they will tell you that to protect yourself from a vampire you will require: garlic, a crucifix, holy water,
  and a nice big, pointy stake. Somehow this particular figure of evil has come to pervade our modern consciousness..."
  (eastoftheweb.com)
  
  

  	Dracula's Guest - Text by Bram Stoker (eastoftheweb.com)
  	The Vampyre by John Polidori - Text "Polidori's novella changed the traditional image of the vampyre from a rotting corpse into the handsome, aristocratic, seducing, amoral creature defined in his story." (eastoftheweb.com)
  	The Horla - Text by Guy de Maupassant (eastoftheweb.com)

• Anne Rice (October 4, 1941 - )
  "Anne Rice's sympathetic vampire characters allow her to explore themes of history, race and a fascination with morbidity that reflect her early upbringing in the city of New Orleans."
  (pbs.org)
  She "is a best-selling American author of gothic, erotic, and religious-themed books from New Orleans, Louisiana."
  See her bibliography.
  (Wikipedia) 
  
  

VIDEOS :

• Sister Mary Dracula - an animation (mooneyart.com)
  

  
  
  See STORIES

CINEMA :

• Dark Shadows

• Twilight - with activities
  
  
• Dracula (1992 film) "by Francis Ford Coppola, based on the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker."
  (Wikipedia)
  
  

• Nosferatu "directed by F. W. Murnau, starring Max Schreck as the vampire Count Orlok. The film, shot in 1921 and released in 1922, was an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula."

  

• Horror films :

  • The Top 25 Horror Movies of all Time
    "From silent vampires to animated murders, from sharks that won't die to a love story set amid a zombie takeover, more than a century's worth of big-screen scares."
    (time.com)
    
    
  • 90 Years of Vampires on the Screen - a slideshow
    "In Daybreakers, Hollywood reimagines the world of the infamous nocturnal bloodsuckers.
    Here's a look back at some of the industry's ghoulish hits and misses."
    (time.com)
    
    

   

  • HORROR FILMS (filmsite.org)
    They "are unsettling films designed to frighten and panic, cause dread and alarm, and to invoke our hidden worst fears, often in a terrifying, shocking finale, while captivating and entertaining us at the same time in a cathartic experience. Horror films effectively center on the dark side of life, the forbidden, and strange and alarming events. They deal with our most primal nature and its fears: our nightmares, our vulnerability, our alienation, our revulsions, our terror of the unknown, our fear of death and dismemberment, loss of identity, or fear of sexuality..."

SONGS :

• Love Song For A Vampire by Annie Lennox (YouTube)
  + the LYRICS (lyrics007.com)
  "It was recorded as the theme song to Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 film adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula." (Wikipedia)

• Monster Mash by Bobby Boris Pickett :
  "... my eyes beheld an eerie sight
  For my monster from his slab began to rise...
  To the master bedroom where the vampires feast
  The ghouls all came from their humble abodes...
  The zombies were having fun...
  The guests included Wolf Man
  Dracula and his son...
  Igor on chains, backed by his baying hounds
  The coffin-bangers were about to arrive..."
  (lyricsondemand.com)
  You can listen to it. (lastfm.fr)

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