5.11.2014
I wasn't supposed to read this yet, but I got hooked. Mmm, books that I pretend to buy for uni work... And reading those said books while trying to study something completely different.

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6.11.2013
I'm going to be writing an essay soon about vampire films, and how people react in them when confronted with vampires. Do I need to say I love my comparative religion course? Anyway, I bought this pretending I absolutely need this for that essay. I don't. But hey, it's Vlad and it was cheap! The book, not Vlad.

Fascinating account of the World's Fair and of two men who had a passion for two very different things. Both were linked to the Worl'd Columbian Exposition : the other built it, the other used it as a tool for carrying out his macabre desires. I could have done with a little less dates and a little more background to the two cases but otherwise a wonderful take on the subject. The idea of writing descriptions like in a novel was great and proves that non-fiction doesn't have to be a boring list of facts and people. This got the reader a little closer to the era.

The Ghosts of Drawing-rooms: Finland's Earliest Gothic Literature
An English summary included.