The Smell of Ink/Lukten av Trykksverte

Earlier this year, I read the novel Emma and the Vampires by Wayne Johnson and Jane Austen, and today I'll post my review of the book. Description from Goodreads What better place than pale England to hide a secret society of gentlemen vampires? In this hilarious retelling of Jane Austen's Emma , screenwriter Wayne Josephson casts Mr. Knightley as one of the most handsome and noble of the gentlemen village vampires. Blithely unaware of their presence, Emma, who imagines she has a special gift for matchmaking, attempts to arrange the affairs of her social circle with delightfully disastrous results. But when her dear friend Harriet Smith declares her love for Mr. Knightley, Emma realizes she's the one who wants to stay up all night with him. Fortunately, Mr. Knightley has been hiding a secret deep within his unbeating heart-his (literal) undying love for her... A brilliant mash-up of Jane Austen and the undead. My Thoughts on the Book While I love both classics and vampires...

It's Tuesday, which means it's perhaps time for another Top Ten Tuesday post courtesy of  That Artsy Reader Girl , and as it was freebie week in terms of themes, I decided writing a list of horror fiction with movie adaptations. Some of the fiction I'll list has more than one adaptation though. Here's my ten picks. Dracula by Bram Stoker Description from Goodreads When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula purchase a London house, he makes horrifying discoveries in his client's castle. Soon afterwards, disturbing incidents unfold in England: an unmanned ship is wrecked; strange puncture marks appear on a young woman's neck; and a lunatic asylum inmate raves about the imminent arrival of his 'Master'. In the ensuing battle of wits between the sinister Count and a determined group of adversaries, Bram Stoker created a masterpiece of the horror genre, probing into questions of identity, sanity and the dark corners of Victorian sexuality...