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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andrew D. Gable" data-source="post: 1875012" data-attributes="member: 4144">Just don't read Bram Stoker's last book, The Lair of the White Worm.  It's pretty...incoherent.  Really weird.  If you already have, well, I pity you.  Some say the movie adapted from The Jewel of Seven Stars (Hammer's Blood from the Mummy's Tomb) sucks, but I enjoyed it when I saw it a few days before Halloween.  It changes things fairly drastically from the story and makes the setting a modern one rather than the nifty Victorian era, but it's good in its own right.I'll also suggest that if you pick up the book, you get the edition with the cover below.  Sure, the cover's pretty "mass market", but I think it has the original ending from the 1903 edition (the publishers changed it in 1913 or so and the changed one was all that was available for the longest time). Another note on the fact in the story.  Nicholas Hawksmoor's churches are real.  Most are in the East End, and some people have already noticed that at least two are EXTREMELY near the spots of brutal murders - Christchurch is very, very near Mary Kelly's room (the facade of the church can be seen several times in the movie From Hell) and the original plans for St. George's in the East had it being built on the site of the Radcliffe Highway Murders.  St. George's now is directly south of the crossroads where Williams' staked and beheaded body was buried.  As a secondary bit, Christchurch is also built on top of a huge mass grave used during the outbreak of the plague which immediately preceded the Great Fire of London.As for the mysterious obelisks and pyramids, I don't know if they're actually at all of the sites.  I know Christchurch, St. George's in the East, and St. Anne's Limehouse have them.  They usually bear some sort of inscription, the one at St. George's being about Solomon.  But even if they aren't there, Hawksmoor seemed rather fixated on the obelisk/spire.</blockquote>

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