Amanda Norman
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Monster Mash Ball Event
On Friday 13th April, Hic Dragones a creative writing and literature organisation based in Manchester, UK is holding a Monster Mash Ball at Sachas Hotel starting at 8pm till late.
The compere is the one and only vampire queen, Rosie Lugosi whose performances combine terror with a dash of tease and glamour with more than a hint of Hellfire. Be prepared for thrilling retro high camp kick entertainment as she cracks the whip, making sure that everyone is sitting comfortably. For more information about Rosie Lugosi, please visit her website, RosieLugosi.com.
Also booked to entertain the crowd are the Ooh La La’s who specialise in can can performances and burlesque tease. Find out more about the Ooh La La’s by visiting their official website by clicking here.
Other performances and bands are to be announced, so in order to keep up to date, please visit the Hic Dragones events page that will be updated on a regular basis.
Dress code for the event is formalwear, smart Goth, steampunk, cyberpunk, Victorian and fancy-dress. Tickets are £25 and with a champagne reception, this promises to be one Hell of a ball.
Horror Portraits on the Night
I’m pleased to announce that I will be in attendance offering my horror portrait services and this will be a wonderful opportunity for you to have your portrait taken wearing your fancy dress outfit. Check out the A2 poster print Melanie from the North West received when she dressed up as a Burlesque Vampire. Other photographs featuring Melanie can be seen by clicking here.
The cost to sit for a horror portrait is £20 payable on the evening and you must be prepared to sign a model release form and provide me with relevant contact details in order to show you the finished result. Next you will have the option of ordering either a poster print or a cameo necklace to showcase the finished portrait at an additional cost of £35: -
Poster Print (16"x20" approximate size due to printer used)
These poster prints can be made into horror posters with text, or just plain with your portrait. For examples click here.
Cameo Necklace
If you don’t like white, you can choose different coloured beads or have the antique silver coloured photo pendant on a genuine waxed leather cord. All metals used in the necklace are lead and nickel free!
I would love to offer these products there and then on the night, but unfortunately this isn’t possible. You will however be viewing your finished portrait within 1 week and you will be kept informed of the progress of your order fully. Depending on the amount of takers on the evening, depends on how long you might have to wait for your finished product, but I don’t envision you to be waiting longer than 28 days maximum.
If you’re interested in the offer and have any questions, please get in touch by clicking here.
Saturday 14th April Manchester MancMonCon
On the Saturday I will be having a trade stall at the Manchester Monster Convention, again at Sachas Hotel, which is a two day event with talks, debates and lots more exhibition stalls. It will be all things monsters and horror with displays from artists, writers and designers. If you’re a horror fan, you need to be there. Tickets for the full weekend and access to all talks are £10 and more information can be found by clicking here. I will be selling some of my photography pendants along with other pieces of handmade jewellery, so be sure to come along and say hi and take advantage of not paying any postal costs.
Bill Oberst Jr Official Website Launch
Official Press Release
“(Hollywood, CA): Bill Oberst Jr. is passionate about horror and it shows in the actor’s new Official Website.
The all-new BillOberst.com comes complete with horror merchandise (including a bloody Severed Ear and some exclusive T-shirt designs by horror genre artists) and a sense of fun that Oberst thinks is often lacking in modern-day horror.
This LA actor is known for roles in a slew of indie horror flicks as well as appearances on MTV’s “Death Valley,” HBO’s “True Blood” and the occasional high-profile dramatic lead in TV-movies like The Hallmark Channel’s “The Shunning” and The History Channel’s “Sherman’s March.” Oberst says he wanted a site that celebrated the kind of horror he loved as a kid. “Horror should be fun. And cathartic. And scary. And disturbing.” says Oberst “I wanted a site that was all of those things.” To create it, he turned to horror site specialists Rough Ride Creations. Rough Ride CEO Briana Malmstrom was so pleased with the results that she wrote an online case study about the site’s development process.
At the heart of the new BillOberst.com is a section called The Anatomy Of Fear, which celebrates the genre of body horror that Oberst has become associated with. “Bill fits squarely into the long cinematic tradition of the human body as an object of fear,” Malmstrom says, “so we created The Anatomy Of Fear, a mini-site with imagery and pop-up text on how Bill draws inspiration from the horror greats to use his face and body in disturbing ways on screen. The visitor travels through a weird old house environment and sees all of this as pictures hanging on the fading wallpaper surrounded by freakish objects. At the end of the journey there’s a creepy TV set playing a clip video from Bill’s horror work which we created especially for the mini-site.”
The actor says he hopes BillOberst.com is “the kind of site that Karloff or Lugosi or Vincent Price might have had if they had lived in our era, something creepy and fun. Horror continues to be good to me, and I hope horror hounds like me will drop in and let me know what they think,” he says. “Oh and be sure to roll your mouse over my face in the header. That’s my favorite part!”
What do I think?
Rough Ride Creations have done an amazing job with Bill’s official website and I love how interactive it is. You can easily find your way around and it’s just great fun. The Anatomy of Fear is brilliant and the imagery is perfect!
As you more than likely know, I love Bill’s horror acting and I firmly believe that he will become the next horror icon. I’ve even named a skull rosary after him and you can see more about that by clicking the image and watching the interview with More Horror below.
Vampire World Record Attempt
The Printworks in Manchester are staging a world record attempt on October 30th for the largest gathering of vampires in one place and I will be there, hopefully with my good friend @HorrorExtreme.
To be a part of this crazy event, all you have to do is turn up dressed as a vampire and be officially counted by a marshall. To break the world record attempt, there need only be 450 participants.
Registration will begin at 4pm till 5.50pm and it will take place inside Henry J Beans.
Unfortunately there won’t be a walk, but there will be lots of Halloween themed events taking place.
If any of you are attending and you would like a vampire horror portrait movie poster like the one below, then please let me know in advance. For more information about the movie poster service I offer, click here.
It’s sure to be a FANGtastic event and I can’t wait.
Vampire World Record Attempt on Facebook
Bill Oberst Jr Wearing Red Skull Rosary
I’m very delighted and unbelievably CHUFFED to bits that Bill tweeted this image of him wearing the skull rosary that I created and named in his honour. He wore it on the red carpet of the opening party of Shriekfest Film Festival in Hollywood the other evening. I read somewhere that this party was in a Goth club full of gargoyles. How wicked!
To view the rosary and other pieces of my handmade jewellery, visit http://www.gothicjewellerybox.com, but hurry as Halloween is fast approaching and I can only make so much.