Tag: Lee Clark Zumpe

• Vampires Through the Ages

  Last week, Jack Tyler gave us a great review of the movie Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter. The movie is a good example of a genre known as the “secret history.” Secret histories are a close relative to the alternate history genre, where the author might ask you to imagine what would have happened if history…

  David Lee Summers

  February 19, 2026

  vampires, AI – Artificial Intelligence, aliens, Apocalyptic Horror, writing, Gothic Horror

  Lee Clark Zumpe, The Buffalo Hunter Hunter, Vermillion Highways, secret history, Clockwork Legion, Jiang Shi, Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter

• A Tasty Sampler

  Recently, I’ve been collaborating with Lee Clark Zumpe to assemble a collection of vampire flash fiction. This is a follow-up to a collection we first released in 2008. The original collection was titled Blood Sampler: Subtle Sips and Spicy Shots and features 35 tales. Most of these tales are 150 words or less and first…

  David Lee Summers

  April 3, 2025

  characters, horror books, Personal Experience, Poetry, Reviews, Stories, vampires

  Blood Sampler, Bussard Ramjet, Christopher Lee, Dracula, flash fiction, Lee Clark Zumpe, Nosferatu, Peter Cushing, Poetry, skinwalker, The Hungur Chronicles, Twist ending

• The Hungur Chronicles

  

  Last week, I received my contributor copy of the Samhain 2023 issue of The Hungur Chronicles, which proved to be a nice, early Holiday present. This semi-annual, digest-sized magazine edited by Terrie Leigh Relf and Robert Bellam features stories and poems about vampires, with a special emphasis on vampires who have a connection to space.…

  David Lee Summers

  December 21, 2023

  Book Review, horror of the mind, Publishing news, Stories, The Craft, vampires

  Fiction, Hungur Magazine, Lee Clark Zumpe, psychic vampires, short stories, skinwalker, space vampires

• Going Back to Horror’s Roots

  A good case can be made that science fiction and horror were born together during a retreat in May 1816 and two of Britain’s great poets were there for the occasion.  The poets were Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley.  Lord Byron’s doctor, John William Polidori, and Mary Godwin, who later married Percy Shelley, accompanied…

  David Lee Summers

  July 27, 2023

  History of Horror, The Craft, vampires

  Frankenstein, horror origins, John Polidori, Lee Clark Zumpe, Lord Byron, Mary Shelley, science fiction, The Vampyre