Actor friends in London offered me their flat, and I jumped at the opportunity to live abroad. In 1974 Robert died suddenly and unexpectedly. I started collecting Dracula, vampire, and horror memorabilia in 1965 and continued amassing a huge collection, which, I hoped, I could incorporate into a museum when the time was right (1990, as it turned out). And two men on death row inquired about becoming vampires so that they could live on as undeads following execution. One woman wanted to marry a vampire and start her own dynasty! The letters still come in, many of them these days from prison inmates who are desperate for pen pals. Sometimes they wanted me to set them up with other blood-drinkers-as though the club was some sort of dating service. We soon had a long mailing list for our newsletter and almost from the beginning I heard from people who asked all kinds of questions about vampires, wanted to tell me they thought they had become a vampire, or wanted to know how they could become one. The Count Dracula Fan Club was an immediate success, and word about the society spread like wildfire. He was a real delight and a most appreciative audience for the movies Bob took such great care to choose. (Author’s collection)įOREWORD ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi INTRODUCTION xiii ENTRIES A– Z 1 BIBLIOGRAPHY 339 INDEX 345īy Jeanne Keyes Youngson, Ph.D.
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Rosemary Ellen Guiley FOREWORD BY Jeanne Keyes Youngson, President and Founder of the Vampire Empire
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