A Halloween Lagniappe: Poets Weave Vampire Trilogy Closes with Sunday’s Broadcast
“…and to this hour the image of Carmilla returns to memory with ambiguous alternations — sometimes the playful, languid, beautiful girl; sometimes the writhing fiend I saw in the ruined church; and often from a reverie I have started, fancying I heard the light step of Carmilla at the drawing room door.”
– From J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla
So this, the final reading on THE POETS WEAVE, on radio station WFIU, was actually broadcast Sunday, October 28. But that was simply because that’s the Sunday closest to Halloween, while here we can greet today officially with its recording. Two previous segments were aired on October 14 and October 21 respectively (see October 17, 21), on the “Who” and the “Where” of vampirism. And now, to end it, are four poems on the “Attraction of Vampirism,” as produced by LuAnn Johnson and introduced by Romayne Rubinas Dorsey: “Moonlight Swimming,” “The Aeronaut,” “When She Won the One Million Credit Galactic Lottery,” and “The Esthete.” All poems are still from my collection VAMPS (A RETROSPECTIVE) and may be heard by pressing here.
