Cursed Bloodlines: How History Became Horror

Thursday, October 29 at 6:30 PM. Location to be provided to registrants. 

Presenter: Lisa J. Yarde

Moderator: Susan Wands

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On Thursday, October 29, the HNS-NYC Chapter presents “Cursed Bloodlines: How History Became Horror” at 6:30 PM. Join us as author Lisa J. Yarde presents a fun and fact-filled exploration of the 15th century Dracula family, whom Lisa’s written about in her newest three-book series, Sons of the Dragon. Discover the bloody roots of Bram Stoker’s Count Dracula and how one family inspired vampiric legend for centuries to come. This Halloween event will occur at the home of one of HNS-NYC chapter’s members. The address will be provided to registrants. Refreshments will be provided. Author Susan Wands will moderate this event.

 

Across Blood and Iron, Crescent and Cross, and The Bastard Prince, the trilogy follows Mircea Dracula, Radu Dracula, and Vlad the Monk, each burdened with duty and a legacy of cruelty and betrayal as a son of Prince Vlad Dracul, the Dragon of Wallachia. And each stands in the shadow of a brother whose name would become a terrifying legend: Vlad the Impaler.

 

Bios

Lisa J. Yarde

Lisa J. Yarde writes fiction inspired by marginalized figures in history. She is the author of the two-part Order of the Dragon series and the Sons of the Dragon trilogy, Blood and Iron, Crescent and Cross, and The Bastard Prince, which together reveal the brutal history of the real Dracula’s family. he first title in the series is available in multiple languages.

 

Born in Barbados, Lisa lived abroad for 33 years before returning permanently to her island home. She has been affiliated with the Historical Novel Society for more than a decade and presented at its 2015 Denver conference. She currently coordinates the NYC-HNS chapter’s Beta Reader program and has previously served as co-chair and program director. 

 

Susan Wands

Author, tarot reader, actor and Pamela Colman Smith researcher, Susan Wands’ award-winning Arcana Oracle Series features the award-winning Magician and Fool, High Priestess and Empress, and Emperor and Hierophant. This series follow Pamela’s life in a magical-realism/historical genre depicting Pamela’s creation of the best-selling Waite Smith tarot deck. Susan is on the steering committee of the NYC Chapter of the Historical Novel Society, and has lectured at London’s Watkins Books for the Recorded Authors series, Atlantis Bookshop, Berlin’s Occulture Conferences, and at the Yeats Society in NYC. Her writings have appeared in Art in Fiction and Kindred Spirits magazines, and The Irving Society journal First Knight. Susan lectured earlier this month in London at the UK Tarot Conference on the life of Pamela Colman Smith.