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Religion and the Evolving Vampire Myth

8pm Thursday 30 January 2014 £3 / £2 concessions The Bell , 50 Middlesex Street, London E1 7EX. Train & Tube: Liverpool Street. Tube: Aldgate, Aldgate East B Bram Stoker injected religion into the modern vampire myth; his vampire hunters fought the evil Dracula with crosses, holy water and Eucharistic wafers. Do such Christian tools still work in our secularised and multi-religious world? Prof J Gordon Melton , Distinguished Professor of American Religious History at Baylor University, Waco, Texas, explores religion's continuing relevance in today’s vampire novels and films. He’s the real-life Dr. Van Helsing Matt Cardin All are welcome. Each LFS evening begins with the Fortmanteau : our monthly summary of strange news stories 8pm Thursday 30 January 2014 £3/£2 concessions London Fortean Society meets upstairs at the fantastic Bell pub, 50 Middlesex Street, London E1 7EX. Train & Tube: Liverpool Street. Tube: Aldgate, Aldgate East.