ook cover of Bloodsucking Fiends by Christopher Moore, featuring a glass of red liquid with two straws and a label reading 'AB'.

Beyond the Script: Denver Public Library’s Guide to Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors

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The Denver Public Library recommends these resources to enhance your theatre experience of Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors.

 

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ook cover of Bloodsucking Fiends by Christopher Moore, featuring a glass of red liquid with two straws and a label reading 'AB'.Bloodsucking Fiends
by Christopher Moore

Jody, an insurance claims clerk turned vampire, and her human boyfriend Tommy navigate their unconventional relationship and deal with the challenges of being part of the San Francisco vampire underworld. Snarky, sarcastic, and funny, with absurd—yet entertaining—scenarios.

 

 

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Movie poster for The Dead Don't Die, featuring a zombie hand emerging from the ground with cast names listed around it.The Dead Don’t Die
dir Jim Jarmusch (2019)

This absurdist self-aware zombie comedy by director Jim Jarmusch is set in the small town of Centerville. Triggered by polar fracking, the dead rise from their graves and wreak havoc on the at times stoic, eccentric, and otherworldly town citizens.While both a comedy and zombie movie, The Dead Don’t Die also serves as a commentary on environmental issues and human passivity in the face of their own destruction.

 

 

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Audiobook cover of What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher, depicting a rabbit with exposed muscles and bones.What Moves the Dead
by T. Kingfisher

This Ruritanian Romance horror novella, set in Ruravia, centers on retired soldier Alex Easton. Easton travels to the Ushers’ ancestral home and finds it in disrepair, surrounded by fungus and a dark, unsettling tarn. The mystery begins when Easton and various other characters interact with Roderick Usher, and Roderick’s twin sister, terminally ill Madeline. Based on the short story “The Fall of the House of Usher” by Edgar Allen Poe, the novella received critical acclaim, winning the 2023 Locus Award for Best Horror Novel and became a finalist for the 2023 Hugo Award for Best Novella.

 

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Book cover of Born to Be Posthumous by Mark Dery, showing an illustration of Edward Gorey holding his coat with red banners displaying the title."Born to Be Posthumous
by Mark Dery

Continue to enjoy macabre nonsense with this biography of Edward Gorey, the Grandfather of Goth. Gorey designed the intricate bat-themed set and costumes for the 1977 Broadway revival of Dracula, which won a Tony. Gorey’s works are dark and eccentric, full of dreadful mishaps yet oddly lighthearted.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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