Vampire evolution ground to a standstill in the '80s, then a woman appeared who completely changed everything we thought about vampires. With the power of her pen, she made vampires less about disease, and more about sex. Today, every vampire lives in the shadow of our Queen of the Damned, Anne Rice.

Bestselling author, Grady Hendrix, continues his vain attempts to get you to buy his latest book, How to Sell a Haunted House, and to sweeten the deal he's hired Chris LaMartina of The WNUF Halloween Special fame to produce the show, and forcibly drafted Mike Walls of Audio Esoterica to engineer the spooky sounds.

Three of the most important vampires of the '70s were Black, and here they are in all their glory. Black vampires have been an important part of the canon all the way back to the beginning, and this is just a part of their stories. Also, a lot of the music in this episode is by the inimitable Sam Waymon. Used with his permission. You can find more of his music here.

Bestselling author, Grady Hendrix, continues his vain attempts to get you to buy his latest book, How to Sell a Haunted House, and to sweeten the deal he's hired Chris LaMartina of The WNUF Halloween Special fame to produce the show, and forcibly drafted Mike Walls of Audio Esoterica to engineer the spooky sounds.

It's the very first episode of Super Scary Haunted Homeschool and Season One is all about VAMPIRES!!!! In this first lesson, we sit down and discuss Vampire Geography. What horrible vampires come from which terrible countries? Geographic information comes courtesy of Mrs. Favell Lee Mortimer, the 19th century's worst and yet most popular travel book writer, and all the ridiculous yet true facts about vampires come courtesy of award-winning author, Grady Hendrix. Let's get educated!

As the '70s began, motion picture vampires were d-e-a-d dead. How would they survive the disco decade? By moving to the small screen, starring on Broadway, and trying to be funny. In the process, they fulfilled their true destiny and finally became romantic heroes.

Bestselling author, Grady Hendrix, continues his vain attempts to get you to buy his latest book, How to Sell a Haunted House, and to sweeten the deal we're going to discuss Evel Knievel, Suckula, and recruit an entire cast to do the voices, hire Chris LaMartina of The WNUF Halloween Special fame to produce the show, and forcibly draft Mike Walls of Audio Esoterica to engineer the spooky sounds.

Welcome to the House of Hammer! This tiny British film studio resurrected Dracula in 1958 and gave movies the most iconic image of the vampire since Bela Lugosi in 1931! Then Dracula killed them dead.

Bestselling author, Grady Hendrix, continues his vain attempts to get you to buy his latest book, How to Sell a Haunted House, and to sweeten the deal he throws in lots of talk about the menace of dope, the illegal international trade in vampires, and he brings in an entire cast to do the voices, recruits Chris LaMartina of The WNUF Halloween Special fame to produce, and forcibly drafted Mike Walls of Audio Esoterica to engineer.

We're going to the movies! Three vampire movies planted the seeds for the 20th century's gallery of glampires and we'll tackle them all in this episode and once we've taken them to the floor we'll cover them in hugs and kisses. It's time for some nookie with Nosferatu, drama with Dracula, and cold vampin' with Vampyr. Bestselling author, Grady Hendrix, continues his struggle to get you to buy his book, The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires, and to make his argument he throws in some plain talk about syphilis, sexually insatiable women, hideous war wounds, gas attacks, super-clean underwear, and poetry.

Dear Mr. Vernon, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it is we did wrong, but we think you're crazy for making us write an essay  debunking the legends of notorious real-life vampires, Vlad the Impaler and Elizabeth Bathory. Who turn out to have nothing to do with vampires after all.

This episode is written, narrated, and produced by Grady Hendrix, New York Times bestselling author of <i>The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires</i>. You can learn all his weaknesses at <a href="http://www.gradyhendrix.com/">gradyhendrix.com.</a>

It's a monster-sized marathon of massive mayhem as Super Scary Haunted Homeschool finally tackles Dracula! Also, emotional vampires, feminism, Baby Mozart, sapphic bloodsuckers, the prom king and queen of Vampire High, and why tall people are degenerates. Except for George Washington. It's another thinly-veiled attempt to get you to buy The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires. Will the suffering never end? Award-winning author, Grady Hendrix, takes you on an educational and emotional (edumotional?) journey to the bloody red heart of 19th century vampirism. You'll never be the same.

Dear Mr. Vernon, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it is we did wrong, but we think you're crazy for making us write an essay telling you about the world's two first, most ancient vampires. 

This episode is written, narrated, and produced by Grady Hendrix, New York Times bestselling author of <i>The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires</i>. You can learn all his weaknesses at <a href="http://www.gradyhendrix.com/">gradyhendrix.com.</a>

In episode two of Super Scary Haunted Homeschool we continue our coursework on VAMPIRES!!!! Will the suffering never stop? In this episode, we discuss Vampire History, from the very first vampire on record to the last filthy bloodsucker dug up and crushed like a tick, we're there every horrible step of the way with brief stops to visit Karl Marx, Vlad the Impaler, Voltaire, and to ponder the sexiness of tuberculosis. Also, what's the matter with Rhode Island? Award-winning author, Grady Hendrix, takes you on an educational journey. 

Dear Mr. Vernon, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it is we did wrong, but we think you're crazy for making us write an essay telling you about China's hopping vampires. Fortunately, we listened to the very first Saturday School episode of Super Scary Haunted Homeschool so we knew all the answers.

This episode is written, narrated, and produced by Grady Hendrix, New York Times bestselling author of <i>The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires</i>. You can learn all his weaknesses at <a href="http://www.gradyhendrix.com/">gradyhendrix.com.</a>