by Lucille Turner | Oct 10, 2016 | Art
MLXLS As you will already know if you read my last post, The Barbarian of Europe, the Eastern European peoples, who were once the Goths, carried their legacy of the ‘barbarians’ of Europe into the twentieth century through two world wars in a battle for...
by Lucille Turner | Oct 10, 2016 | Art
When I decided to tackle the myth of the vampire in the subject matter of my new historical novel, The Sultan, the Vampyr and the Soothsayer, which comes out on November 19th, I knew it was going to be a bit of a gamble. The popular image of the fanged figure of...
by Lucille Turner | Sep 2, 2016 | Art
There has never been, in the history of popular culture, such a successful phenomenon as the vampire. Love the fangs or hate them, the vampire remains an icon of seductiveness, a monster we can’t seem to escape. The association of desire with devour, which the vampire...