Dracula Blogged

"Haunted by Dracula's teeth"

Phantom teeth syndrome is the delusion that one's teeth have grown into fangs, once they've been removed.  Call it Dracula's Teeth Syndrome:

Phantoms are thought to arise when the brain's map of the sensory areas becomes distorted during re-organisation, after the actual sensations from the removed appendage stop.

(thanks to Steve Burnett!)

New Radio 4 Dracula play

Britain's Radio 4 is broadcasting a new take on Dracula, one focusing on the fatal voyage of a Russian ship.  "The Voyage of the Demeter" is written by Robert Forrest.

I can't get to it.  Has anyone heard it?

(via SFFAudio)

Barackula!

The American presidential election season isn't even done with the primaries, and already we're at the vampiric stage.  Yes, it's Barackula:

Barackula is a short political horror rock musical about young Barack Obama having to stave off a secret society of vampires at Harvard when he was inducted into presidency at the Harvard Law Review in 1990.

(via MetaFilter)