: Games Workshop announced today, as I had guessed, that it will be releasing its own, official Kill …
: Teammate 1.2.14 The Brood Brother and Hernkyn Yaegir teams, and the Termination missions are now available to use in …
: Teammate 1.2.13 Just two small bug fixes in this update. 1.2.13 Matched Play: Fixed a bug that prevented Tac Op …
: Teammate 1.2.12 In addition to adding the teams and missions from Kill Team: Nightmare, this edition adds fun emoji …
: Teammate 1.2.10 This update fixes an important bug where attempting to delete a Spec Ops team might instead delete a …
: Teammate 1.2.9 Just a small update this week fixing two Spec Ops bugs and updating the artwork for Bheta-Decima. …
: Teammate 1.2.8 This version adds a new “Quick Score” screen that you can access from the main screen. …
: Teammate 1.2.7 1.2.7 features a completely redesigned the score sheet for Matched Play games. 1.2.7 New score …
: Teammate 1.2.6 I’ve added support for Strike Force Justian to Teammate. For now I’m assuming that the …
: Teammate 1.2.4 Two quality of life enhancements and one wording change to comply with the new Balance Dataslate. …
: Teammate 1.2.3: Ashes of Faith Teammate 1.2.3 adds support for Kill Team: Ashes of Faith. And the Gallus Campaign is in full swing. …
: Teammate 1.2.2 Teammate 1.2.2 adds support for Kill Team: Gallowfall. For Spec Ops games, Critical Ops cards will …
: Just Another Kill Team Podcast: Narrative Episode with David Ely Jason and Travis were nice enough …
: Teammate 1.2.1 Teammate 1.2.1 brings compliance with the newest Balance Dataslate. If your game uses the Critical …
: Teammate 1.2 1.2 adds automatic* support for Spec Ops† and Mission bonuses‡. I’m …
: Teammate 1.1 1.1 adds the Soulshackle teams, Hand of the Archon and Exaction Squad, as well as game history and …
: I’ve published an FAQ document for Teammate. You can find it here. I’ll keep it updated …
: Teammate 1.0.3 Hot on the heels of 1.0.2 comes 1.0.3, which fixes a small bug for teams using the accelerated ranks …
: Teammate 1.0.2 Teammate 1.0.2 is available now. This version adds support for most faction-specific Requisitions …
: Teammate 1.0.1 Teammate 1.0.1 is available now. The big features are enhancements for people who primarily do …
: Teammate 1.0 Teammate: Kill Team Spec Ops Aide is out now. This is an app I’ve been working on throughout …
: Wallachia 2.0.3 Release notes iPad keyboard shortcuts: Use the “[“ and “]” keys to move back/forward a page. ⌘-T …
: Wallachia Chapter 15: Death and Burial Customs of the Wallachian Peasant Chapter fifteen of Wallachia is out. You can read it in the app or listen to the audiobook chapter. …
: 21. Wallachia Chapter 15: Death and Burial Customs of the Wallachian Peasant Abraham and Dragos visit Marian’s farm.
: Oh, and a quick note: I’m now serializing Varney the Vampire in the app. Chapters come out …
: Chapter fifteen of Wallachia should be out tomorrow. I’ve said before that one of the hardest …
: Varney the Vampire Happy new year! Today we start publishing a “new” serial, 1845’s Varney the Vampire or, The Feast of …
: Chapter six of Carmilla, “A Very Strange Agony,” is in the app now. If you didn’t …
: Wallachia 2.0.2 Very small application update coming to the App Store today. In previous versions, fi you had the …
: My own little side project, Dracula Live, is in the home stretch now. The story concludes in early …
: Dracula: A Radio Play, “An adaption of the Bram Stoker novel, written and directed by Cruz Flores,” …
: Wallachia 2.0 A new version of the Wallachia app should be in the App Store shortly. It requires iOS 14, but the …
: Wallachia 1.2.3 Another small bug fix update should be in the App Store now. This fixes a small bug in the Table of …
: 20. Wallachia Chapter 14: The Trial Eugen stands trial.
: When I read ebooks on my phone, I usually do it in landscape mode. I prefer having a wider screen so …
: I noticed a bunch of vampire movie deals on iTunes today: $20 Hotel Transylvania 3-Movie Collection …
: As I schedule the @live_dracula tweets, I’m getting to the parts of the book where much …
: Wallachia 1.2.2 I’ve published a small update to the app. The next major version, 2.0, will require iOS 14. …
: 19. Wallachia Chapter 13: The Mystery of the Blue Flames Marley meets Dracula.
: 18. Wallachia Chapter 12: The Farmer’s Afterlife Abraham has some news to deliver.
: Walachia Chapter 14: The Trial Chapter fourteen of Wallachia is out. Get it from the App Store and read it for free. 🏛Eugen stands …
: On Twitter I posted a few thoughts on the “Log of the Demeter” sections of Dracula, which are …
: 17. Wallachia Chapter 11: Nicolae at the Bat Rain cancels Ion’s oină practice.
: Sarah Andersen just published the last strip of her lovely web comic, Fangs.
: Blacula also seems to be free to watch with ads on Amazon Prime.
: I missed this last month when they appeared. Underworld, Underworld Evolution, and Rise of the …
: 16. Wallachia Chapter 10: Red Tower Pass Marley and Margareta go for a ride.
: Dracula Live ’20 is nearing the end of chapter four. Still lots of time to catch up! Follow along on …
: In chapter one of Dracula, there’s an odd scene where the count, pretending to be his own driver, …
: I’ve written a bit here about the disdain for Eastern Europe you find in the travelogues written in …
: Chapter 13: The Mystery of the Blue Flames Chapter thirteen of Wallachia is out. Get it from the App Store and read it for free. Marley meets …
: The Black Vampyre: A Legend of St. Domingo I watched Blacula for the first time yesterday. I’d always assumed it was a campy C-list movie, but …
: 15. Wallachia Chapter 9: Rides in the Rain Father Abraham visits a sick farmer.
: Chapter thirteen of Wallachia should be out tomorrow or Monday. Some things I researched while …
: 14. Wallachia Chapter 8: Goings and Comings The castle learns of Marley’s disappearance.
: Dracula Beats the Communists Bram Stoker’s novel was a mixed blessing for Romania. It attracted …
: Chapter 12: The Farmer’s Afterlife Chapter twelve of Wallachia is out. Get it from the App Store and read it for free (then leave a …
: Rereading each entry to set up @live_dracula will add up to be (I think) my 13th time reading …
: Wonderful Animal Crossing literary reference from Reddit user u/TheyAlmostNamedMe.
: 13. Wallachia Chapter 7: An Imbalance of Humours Marley visits the castle’s dungeon.
: I relish every new Fangs strip. Check it out.
: Here’s a stream of the National Theater’s production of Frankenstein, directed by Danny Boyle and …
: Version 1.2.1 of the Wallachia app should be in the store soon. It adds a bit of mouse and trackpad …
: Dracula Live 2020 My Dracula Live project will be starting up again on the 3rd. I’m moving it over to …
: 12. Wallachia Chapter 6: The Proud Blood of the Wallachian Father Abraham attends the speech by Count Dracula and Negrescu Radu at the castle.
: Wikipedia on Wayside Shrines that can be found throughout parts of Europe (and the forthcoming …
: 11. Wallachia Chapter 5: How to Borrow a Book With the town all at Radu’s speech, Marley and friends “borrow” a book from the …
: Chapter 11: Nicolae at the Bat Chapter 11 of Wallachia is out. Get it from the App Store and read it for free (then tip …
: There’s a new chapter of Wallachia coming later this week. You can download the app now to get …
: Here’s a nice piece about Uncle Iroh in Avatar: The Last Airbender. (And yes, I did put a …
: Valerian - The Complete Collection Sale Tiny behind-the-scenes note: Laureline in Wallachia is named …
: An essential CD that I keep in my car and played for the kids often: David Bowie Narrates …
: Steve Troughton-Smith is running a poll asking about SwiftUI adoption. I haven’t adopted any …
: My stay-at-home listening has been this huge digital boxed set of 70s Bowie: Who Can I Be Now? …
: Benny Beck: Vampire Killer Fun, free four-page comic.
: An advantage of designing my own publishing platform is that I can make sneaky edits whenever I want …
: I’ve been using Ferrite Studio Pro on my iPad with an Apple Pencil to edit the Wallachia audiobook …
: Enna, Bruno (script), Fabio Celoni (art), and Mirka Andolfo (colors). Dracula Starring Mickey Mouse. …
: Mignola, Mike (pencils). Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Topps, 1992. Four-issue adaptation of the film by …
: Bowie, David and David Mallet. “Ashes to Ashes.” 1980. At the time the most expensive music video …
: Picard was quite good but, like most episodes of Discovery, it rarely felt like Star Trek to me. I …
: 10. Wallachia Chapter 4: Evening Tea Ion and Kwasi take Marley to the pub. They hear some music, she notices that something’s up …
: Here’s a summary of a 1701 account by Joseph Pitton de Tournefortof of a Vrykolakas (Greek vampire) …
: It’s hard for me to focus on programming with the kids at home. I have a bunch of ways I want …
: Far Sector continues to be one of the best books going.
: Here’s a chilling 13th century Wallachian legend about Manoli, a stonemason tasked by Radu the …
: Sypha calls Jason Isaacs’s character in season three of Castlevania a “township …
: Classic Vampire Stories You Can Read for Free I’ve read a good portion of the vampire stories published prior to 1900. Here are what I …
: Important research on Bunnicula from The Flophouse. 🐰🧛🏻♂️
: 9. Wallachia Chapter 3: Rumors, Lamentations, and Thunderstorms Father Abraham faces the possibility there’s been a murder in the village.
: DRACULA, MOTHERFKER by de Campi and Henderson coming this fall New graphic novel from Image due out …
: Feeling miserably weak? Have a ghastly pale complexion (but without anæmic signs)? Sterterous …
: The Legend of Poenari Citadel Good piece on this now-ruined fortress that Vlad III Dracula used. My …
: It’s fortunate that Warren Ellis knew to sprinkle dashes of camp and levity into Castlevania.
: I’m trying to figure out how Oină works. A maybe-predecessor to baseball, it’s a national sport in …
: There’s a small scene in the first episode of season three of Castlevania where there’s some …
: Chapter 10, “Red Tower Pass” I’ve just released chapter 10 of Wallachia, “Red Tower Pass.” Horses and vampires …
: Chapter 10 is written and edited. I need to read it over a few more times, then record the audio for …
: 8. Wallachia Chapter 2: Six Hundred and Eighty Steps We follow Ion up the steps to Castelul Argeş, see a little of what life is like for those who work …
: Today, February 24, is the date of the events of the pilot of Twin Peaks. From there the first …
: Bugs Bunny in Transylvania 6-5000. (Unfortunately the WB only has a shortened version up on …
: “Transylvania” by Jake Kaufman for the NES DuckTales game.
: Sengir Vampire. Art by Anson Maddocks.
: I was very excited about this week’s Doctor Who. Shelley, Byron, and Polidori really did spend time …
: David Bowie and Catherine Deneuve in 1983’s The Hunger. [I initially mis-typed this as …
: 7. Wallachia Chapter 1: Welcome to Wallachia Chapter 1 of Wallachia: A Penny Dreadful by David Ely. The previous six episodes have comprised the …
: I don’t know how well it works digitally, but The Terrifics 25 is a very fun issue. It lets you make …
: Batman & Dracula: Red Rain is a fun “Elseworlds” Story by Doug Moench. Here’s a collection that …
: Turnu Roșu Pass along the Olt River near the southern Transylvania-northern Wallachia border. 1831 …
: 6. Flowers of Transylvania Chapter 6: Home At Last Corina and Dominic arrive at her village. This marks the end of the Flowers of Transylvania novella. …
: My brain woke me up at 4:00 or so this morning because it had finally figured out the line of …
: John Williams wrote the score for 1979’s Dracula starring Frank Langella.
: A Bit More on Count Von Count Inspired by this letter Children’s Workshop got about Count von Count, here are a few more …
: Naturally, Count von Count has a Twitter account: @CountVonCount. It’s frightfully, …
: In 1989 Children’s Television Workshop received a letter expressing concern that Sesame …
: Ruins of Ravencroft: Dracula №1: Ravencroft Institute for the Criminally Insane appeared to be a …
: 5. Flowers of Transylvania Chapter 5: As the World Falls Down The morning after finding something terrible beneath the chapel in the village, Corina despairs.
: Chapter 9, “Rides in the Rain” is out now. Father Abraham takes a ride in the rain to …
: I’m hoping to have chapter 9 out tomorrow or Thursday. If tomorrow’s a snow day it might slow me …
: BBC One has posted a few short documentaries about its new Dracula series (on Netflix in the US): …
: The count’s ring in the Dracula series is the symbol of the Order of the Dragon. Here’s a shot of …
: In the BBC/Netflix show, Count Dracula has a new trick: learning languages by drinking blood. Here …
: I quite liked the first episode of BBC One/Netflix’s Dracula. It plays with the source well and …
: 4. Flowers of Transylvania Chapter 4: Into the Labyrinth Corina and the girls visit the village, and she makes a startling discovery.
: This was in my Christmas cracker tonight.
: Chapter 8 of Wallachia, “Goings and Comings,” is out now. The Order gets some orders The trouble …
: 3. Flowers of Transylvania Chapter 3: Day and Night in Castle Dracula Corina and Dominic connect; she starts having bad dreams.
: I let myself, somehow, sleep on the first book of Pullman’s new Dark Materials series, “The Book of …
: Vampires in The Green Lantern: Blackstars The second issue of The Green Lantern: Blackstars by Grant Morrison, Xermanico, and Steve Oliff has …
: 2. Flowers of Transylvania Chapter 2: The Lord Who Receives Many Guests Corina awakens in Castle Dracula and discovers that she’s not alone.
: Audiobook chapters of Wallachia are now available as a podcast, starting with the first chapter of …
: Chapter 7, “An Imbalance of Humours,” is out now. 🥖Ion arranges to buy some old bread. …
: Having a nice cup of 🍵green tea while I get chapter seven ready to publish.
: Units of Measurement in Wallachia Throughout Wallachia, whenever I refer to a distance, weight, etc., I try to use the era-appropriate …
: 1. Flowers of Transylvania Chapter 1: The Princess of Springtime Transylvania. The first day of spring, 1741. Corina is the jewel of her village. She’s been …
: Development Log: Fleurons part 2 As discussed previously, I use little fleurons to give the text a little bit of flourish here and …
: Wallachia v1.2.0 Big announcement: Wallachia is now completely free to read or listen to; no subscription required. …
: I fully expected to do a few rounds with app review before this was ready. Big update coming soon.
: Cannot say I agree that “fugly” is a suitable synonym for “homely,” Apple thesaurus.
: Also, Dracula Live has now concluded. Here’s the complete table of contents. I might do a …
: Chapter 6, “The Proud Blood of the Wallachian,” is out now. 🗣Father Abraham overhears some gossip. …
: Suzerainty: a position of control by a sovereign or state over another state that is internally …
: Dracula Live ends tomorrow. Well, most of the action is happening just about right now, but Mina and …
: I made a little teaser and a webpage for my novella, Flowers of Transylvania. It’s only $2.99 …
: iOS 13.2-related emoji follow-up: the 🧄garlic is new, 🧛🏻gender-neutral vampire was already in (news …
: iOS 13.2 includes an important new emoji to protect yourself from digital vampires: 🧄.
: Count Dracula & Vlad the Impaler Q: Is Count Dracula based on Vlad the Impaler? A: In name only. Bram Stoker, writing in the 1890s, …
: To promote the new animated Addams Family movie, MGM has uploaded a number of full episodes of the …
: And (un)naturally, Lord Vampyre and his bride ¹ glow in the dark. She doesn’t have a name, just …
: No Vampyre Castle is complete without a zombie chauffeur-driven hearse.
: Looking for a short vampire book to read before Halloween? Flowers of Transylvania is only $2.99. In …
: Wallachia v1.1.1 A very minor update, 1.1.1, has been approved and will be coming to you shortly. It fixes a bug that …
: Chapter 5, “How to Borrow a Book,” is now available. Alt title: “The Gang Robs the Church.” Also, we …
: The Vampyre and Carmilla Both The Vampyre and Carmilla are in the public domain. You can download ebooks of them for free …
: Van Helsing and friends are waiting in Varna. The count is retreating to Transylvania aboard the …
: Gay Characters and Homophobia in Wallachia My wording in the video, that I “realized” Ion and Kwasi were gay, is intentional. The …
: A number of the Addams Family strips feature bats and coffins, but this one, from The Charles Addams …
: Book keeping: Most of the events in Dracula Live from here on out move to the Eastern European Time …
: Research question: would coffee have been consumed in 1816 Wallachia? Wikipedia says it got to …
: Out today: Tomb of Dracula: The Complete Collection vol. 3 by Marv Wolfman et al. (Also a new volume …
: This morning’s Dracula Live posts are long, I know, but also have a ton of good action in …
: This evening’s Dracula Live entry is a big one. Van Helsing enumerates a number of the count’s …
: From Cinemassacre: Which film adaptation of Dracula is the most faithful to the book?
: Chatted with Apple support today. TV OS’s new multi-user system requires you to either A) add …
: I made a little video about my favorite set of Heroes of the Storm skins, the “Hallow’s …
: Setting up next week’s Dracula Live posts, I see a few cracks in the epistolary format. The …
: Wallachia v1.1.0 is out now if you have iOS 13. It adds dark mode and fixes a bug where audiobooks …
: “Buffy vs Dracula” vs Dracula This week, the wonderful podcast @BufferingCast covered “Buffy vs. Dracula,” the season …
: Development Log: Dark Mode Website I spent a little time tonight adding some dark mode colors to the website. I did it the slightly …
: Lastly for now, the unoffiicial subtitle of this chapter might as well be, “I read Emily …
: This is the first chapter I’ve published post-launch, so that’s invigorating. It took me a while to …
: Wallachia chapter three, “Rumors, Lamentations, and Werewolves” is out now. You can …
: If all goes well, chapter three of Wallachia will be out tomorrow. It’s called “Rumors, …
: Today in 1893 we have Van Helsing recommending a blood transfusion to help Lucy. The transfusion was …
: When I read all of Dracula and broke it up by dates and times, I was looking forward to the period …
: Dark Mode development wasn’t too hard. I switched to the system semantic colors and put a 90% …
: Development Log: Fleurons Very early on in the design process for Wallachia I decided that I’d be writing the book using a …
: Today over at Dracula Live, we get both our first reference to Van Helsing followed closely by a …
: Wallachia Launch Follow-Through Reading Brent Simmons’s piece about following-through on the launch of the excellent NetNewsWire, I …
: Flowers of Transylvania, the prelude I wrote to Wallachia, is now available on Kindle and Apple …
: Here’s a longer trailer, featuring me! 📚
: Development Log: Wallachia's App Icon I’m not much of a visual designer. I know the basics and think I have an adequate aesthetic …
: Here’s the press kit for Wallachia. I’ll say yes to essentially any podcast or interview …
: Here is the excellent cover that Samantha Lane Fiddy painted for Wallachia. 📚🎨
: Never fear, this account will continue to republish Dracula live, from 1893. If you’ve been …
: Teaser for Wallachia Here’s the teaser trailer for Wallachia, my new serial vampire book.
: Forgetting Sarah Marshall featured a silly but earnest puppetry performance of a Dracula-themed rock …
: Note: today’s letter from Sister Agatha was written 12 August. It’ll take a week for the …
: Happy August! Today, in 1893, sailers aboard the Demeter are falling one-by-one to their unseen …
: My copy of Dracula Starring Mickey Mouse just arrived!
: I’ve updated the Table of Contents for Dracula Live. I have to do it manually but I’ve …
: Jason Kottke’s Live TV Coverage of the Apollo 11 Landing and Moon Walk using CBS’s footage just went …
: From today’s Dracula Live entry, Backsheesh: n. (in parts of Asia) a small sum of money given as …
: Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the 1992 film by Francis Ford Coppola, is on sale for $4.99 this week on …
: Today’s Dracula Live entry concludes chapter four. We’ve already read from chapter five; Mina and …
: I schedule Dracula Live posts two weeks ahead of time. Today there was only one to do! We have …
: If you’ve been sleeping on starting Dracula, we’re only up to chapter 4 in our live read-along. …
: The Castlevania Anniversary Collection is out now for Nintendo Switch. It has eight games and …
: Next entry will go up later tonight. There’s no date listed but the letter say it’s a Wednesday, and …
: Today we have our first post that comes out of order with respect to the original Dracula novel: a …
: Working out the Dracula Live chronology can be tricky even with dated entries! This morning, Harker …
: So what does it look like? I like the tall, jagged versions depicted in Vampire Hunter D, …
: Castle Dracula With Harker taking a day off today to rest after arriving at his destination, I’ll write a …
: Beware Saint George’s Eve Here’s a bit of history on the superstitions that feature into the …
: Maybe I should have worked out a cross-promotion with @vampireweekend. “Listen to the new record …
: My posts are currently at the top of both /r/dracula and /r/vampires! They’re not big subreddits, …
: Jonathan Harker’s train just left Munich for Vienna, then on to Transylvania.
: Announcing Dracula Live. I’ve taken the text of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, broken each …