Hi, Exeter city council! When the inhuman revenants come boiling out of the sewers to feast upon the defenseless souls of the living, and the countryside is bubbling and withering under the relentless onslaught of Hell on Earth – and if one of your number is actually cruising the Internet at that moment instead of doing something useful, like looking for an actual working gun* – well. Let me warn you: this idea?
Catacombs could house flu victims
Old underground burial chambers in a Devon city could be used to store the bodies of swine flu victims if the outbreak worsens, a council has said.
Yeah. Bad idea. That’s not just asking for it; that was jumping up and down and begging to be picked for the opening act of the Apocalypse. I’m surprised that you didn’t publicly mock [insert standard, trendy polytheistic deity here] and shut down a meaningless ritual that’s been performed yearly since the Middle Ages.
*Admittedly, the lack of guns made Shaun of the Dead
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deserves to be called “the single best vampire book.” I was tempted to give him a pass, given that Kim Newman’s 
(which – barely – edges out Saberhagen’s very good book) is part of a series – but then, so is Saberhagen’s. Newman’s knowledge of Stoker’s book easily matches Saberhagen’s, and the former’s grasp of the genre easily overshadows Saberhagen’s. While I readily admit that Saberhagen showed a real flair at creating a book that completely subverts the original text without contradicting the actual words, the outer world of Newman’s work is simply better fleshed-out, and somehow more real.
stuff, which is certainly literary enough to suit the folks that aren’t all that into the messy mechanics of it all.
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was also about vampires.
(director: Hiroyuki Kitakubo) is fun, in a very, very, specialized way.
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is also a really good supplement for 
, which is a really good urban fantasy roleplaying game.