Born on this day – Margaret Mitchell:

Margaret Mitchell

Writer

November 8, 1900 – August 16, 1949

Credits:

Gone with the Wind (1936); Lost Laysen (1996); Before Scarlett: Girlhood Writings of Margaret Mitchell (2000); Margaret Mitchell, Reporter (2000); I Want to Be Famous: The Writings of Young Margaret Mitchell (2002); Gone with the Wind Letters (1987); Dynamo Going to Waste: Letters to Allen Edee, 1919-1921 (1989).

Awards:

National Book Award for Most Distinguished Novel (1936).

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1937).

Both awards for her 1936 novel: Gone with the Wind.

Born on this day – Marie Prevost:

Marie Prevost

Actress

November 8, 1896 – January 21, 1937

Credits:

13 Hours by Air (1936); A Blonde for a Night (1928); A Kitchen Cinderella (1920); A Parisian Scandal (1921); A Scoundrel's Toll (1916); A Small Town Idol (1921 / 1939); All Faces West (1929); Almost a Lady (1926); Being Respectable (1924); Bengal Tiger (1936); Better Late Than Never (1916); Bobbed Hair (1925); Brass (1923); Cain and Mabel (1936); Call a Cop (1921); Carnival Boat (1932); Cornered (1924); Dabbling in Art (1921); Daughters of Pleasure (1924); Death Scenes (1989); Divorce Made Easy (1929); Don't Get Personal (1922); Down on the Farm (1920); East Lynne with Variations (1919); For Wives Only (1926); Fresh from the City (1920); Friend Husband (1918); Gentleman's Fate (1931); Getting Gertie's Garter (1927); Grauman Special (1918); Hands Across the Table (1935); Happy Times and Jolly Moments (1943); Hell Divers (1931); Her Nature Dance (1917); Her Night of Nights (1922); Her Screen Idol (1918); Heroes of the Street (1922); Hesitating Love (1932); Hide and Seek, Detectives (1918); His Father's Footsteps (1915); His Hidden Purpose (1918); His Jazz Bride (1926); His Smothered Love (1918); His Youthful Fancy (1920); Hollywood on Parade No. A-8 (1933); How to Educate a Wife (1924); It's a Wise Child (1931); Keystone Hotel (1935); Kiss Me Again (1925); Kissed (1922); Ladies of Leisure (1930); Life in Hollywood No. 4 (1927); Love, Honor and Behave! (1920); Love's False Faces (1919); Man Bait (1926); March of the Movies (1933); Moonlight Follies (1921); Movie Fans (1920); Nana (1926); Never Too Old (1919); Nobody's Fool (1921); On a Summer Day (1921); On to Reno (1927); Only Yesterday (1933); Other Women's Husbands (1926); Paid (1930); Parole Girl (1933); Party Girl (1930); Personality Parade (1938); Pick Me Up (1933); Players at Play (1929); Reckless Living (1931); Recompense (1925); Red Lights (1923); Reilly's Wash Day (1919); Rock-a-Bye Cowboy (1933); Salome vs. Shenandoah (1919); Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 11 (1937); Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 1 (1937); Screen Snapshots Series 9, No. 24 (1930); Screen Snapshots, Series 1, No. 24 (1921); Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 17 (1923); Screen Snapshots, Series 3, No. 3 (1922); Secrets of a Beauty Parlor (1917); Seven Sinners (1925); She Loved Him Plenty (1918); She Sighed by the Seaside (1921); Sleuths (1918); Slightly Married (1932); Some of the Best (1944); Sporting Blood (1931); Sunshine (1916); Sweethearts on Parade (1930); Tango (1936); Tarnish (1924); Ten Laps to Go (1936); The Beautiful and Damned (1922); The Caveman (1926); The Crossroads of New York (1922); The Dangerous Little Demon (1922); The Dark Swan (1924); The Dentist (1919); The Eleventh Commandment (1933); The Flying Fool (1929); The Girl in the Pullman (1927); The Godless Girl (1928); The Good Bad Girl (1931); The Hollywood Kid (1924); The Lover of Camille (1924); The Marriage Circle (1924); The Married Flapper (1922); The Moving Picture Boys in the Great War (1975); The Night Bride (1927); The Racket (1928); The Runaround (1931); The Rush Hour (1927); The Sideshow (1928); The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931); The Speakeasy (1919); The Village Chestnut (1918); The Wanters (1923); Those Athletic Girls (1918); Three Wise Girls (1931); Three Women (1924); Two Crooks (1917); Uncle Tom Without a Cabin (1919); Unto Those Who Sin (1916); Up in Alf's Place (1919); Up in Mabel's Room (1926); War Nurse (1930); Wedding Bells Out of Tune (1921); When Love Is Blind (1919); Whose Little Wife Are You? (1918); Why Beaches Are Popular (1919); Yankee Doodle in Berlin (1919); You Wouldn't Believe It (1920).

Born on this day – Bram Stoker:

Bram Stoker

Writer

November 8, 1847 – April 20, 1912

Credits:

Under the Sunset (1881); Snowbound (1908); Dracula's Guest (1914); The Bram Stoker Bedside Companion (1973); Shades of Dracula (1982); Midnight Tales (1992); Best Ghost and Horror Stories (1997); The Judge's House and Other Weird Tales (2003); Bram Stoker Horror Stories (2018); The Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions in Ireland (1879); Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving (1906); Famous Impostors (1910); The Lost Journal of Bram Stoker (2012); The Forgotten Writings of Bram Stoker (2012); The First Pan Book of Horror Stories (1959); Human And Inhuman Stories (1963); Everyman's Book of Classic Horror Stories (1965); The Midnight People (1968); The Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1968); 11 Great Horror Stories (1969); The Undead (1971); Summoned From The Tomb (1973); Clutch of Vampires (1974); Christopher Lee's 'X' Certificate (1975); The Price of Fear (1976); Classic Tales of Horror (1976); Christopher Lee's New Chamber of Horrors (1976); Demons Within & Other Disturbing Tales (1977); Spine-Chillers (1978); The 12th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1979); Echoes Of Terror (1980); The Giant Book Of Horror Stories (1981); 65 Great Spine Chillers (1982); The 16th Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories (1983); Realms of Darkness (1985); Tales of the Dark (1987); The Man In Black (1990); The Mammoth Book of Vampires (1992); Blood and Roses (1992); To Sleep, Perchance to Dream ... Nightmare (1993); Masterpieces of Terror and the Unknown (1993); 100 Wild Little Weird Tales (1994); Thrillers (1994); The Puffin Book of Horror Stories (1994); Great Irish Tales of Horror (1995); The Mammoth Book of Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories (1995); The Vampire Hunters' Casebook (1996); Secret City (1997); Vampires, Wine & Roses (1997); The Mammoth Book of Dracula (1997); Haunted Houses (1997); Vampire and Werewolf Stories (1998); The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction (1999); Into the Mummy's Tomb (2001); Beware! R.L. Stine Picks His Favourite Scary Stories (2002); Classic Erotic Tales (2002); Vampyre Tales: An Anthology (2005); H. P. Lovecraft's Book of the Supernatural (2006); Creepy Archives, Vol. 1 (2008); Short Stories: After Dark Classics (2012); 6 Classic Graveyard Tales of Vampires and Ghosts ... (2012); Penny Dreadful Multipack Vol. 2 (2013); Easy Reading for Difficult Devils: An Anthology of Dark Fiction (2014); The Dover Anthology of Cat Stories (2015); The Frightful Fifty, Part One (2015); Fireside Horror Stories About Supernatural Cats (2017); In the Footsteps of Dracula (2017); Fireside Horror Stories About Mummies and Curses (2017); Bram Stoker Horror Stories (2018); Vampire Classics (2018); Stories to make you Shudder: Book 2 (2019); The Curse of the Undead - Selected Vampire Books and Legends (2020); Terrifying Ghosts Short Stories (2021); Our Haunted Shores (2022); Hungry for Blood – Ultimate Halloween Collection (2023).

Movies and television:

Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948); Allen and Rossi Meet Dracula and Frankenstein (1974); As Núpcias de Drácula (2018); Batman Fights Dracula (1967); Blood Daughter (2022); Blood for Dracula (1974); Blood from the Mummy's Tomb (1971); Bloodlines: The Dracula Family Tree (2003); Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992); Broadway on Showtime (1980); Burial of the Rats (1995); Carry on Christmas (1969); Cineficción Radio (2019–2021); Count Dracula (1970 / 1977); Danny: Dracula (2021); Dawn of Dracula (2013); Drac's Night Out (1991); Drácula (1931 / 1972 / 1973 / 1974 / 1979 / 1980 / 1999 / 2001 / 2002 / 2006 / 2010 / 2013 / 2020 / 2023 / 2024); Dracula 2000 (2000); Dracula 3D (2012); Dracula 5: The Blood Legacy (2013); Dracula a Silhouette Animation (2016); Dracula A Symphony of Blood (2021); Dracula A.D. 1972 (1972); Dracula and Stoker (2012); Drácula de Denise Castro (2018); Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968); Dracula Reborn (2015); Dracula Sucks (1978); Dracula the Messiah (2020); Dracula Untold (2014); Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein (1972); Dracula. Über das Interesse an Vampiren (1976); Dracula: A Love Tale (2025); Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995); Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (2002); Dracula: Prince of Darkness (1966); Dracula: Reborn (2012); Dracula: The Musical (2010); Dráculabelha (2020–2022); DraculAIDS (2014); Dracula's Curse (2006); Dracula's Daughter (1936); Dracula's Death (1921); Dracula's Stoker (2009); Drakula Goes to R.P. (1973); Drakulov (2021); Fangs (2008); Fireside Reading of Dracula (2022); Frankenstein's Aunt (1987); Gallery of Horror (1967); Historias de terror (2004); Hora once (1970); Horror of Dracula (1958); Hrabé Drakula (1971); I riassuntini (2018); In Search of History (2000); Jackal (2022); Jonathan (1970); La casa del juez (1993); La maison du juge (1964); Last Dracula's blood (2018); Legend of the Mummy (1998); Lesbian Dracula Submarine (2020); Living Death: A Day in the Life of Dracula (2004); Love at First Bite (1979); Lucy en miroir (2003); Manga sekai mukashi banashi (1977); Mashup at the Movies (2021); Matinee Theatre (1956); Monster Mash: The Movie (1995); Mystery and Imagination (1968–1970); Nadja (1994); Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979); Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922); NOSFERATU: A Symphony of Horror (Audio Score by idiedtrying.) (2024); Nosferatu: Del Rey & The Sun Kings (2013); Otra vez Drácula (1970); Parlez-moi de Vous (2016–2020); Phantasie (2009); Potty Time (1973); Quaranstein (2020); Re: Dracula (2023); Reel Monsters Podcast (2022); Relatos Clásicos de Misterio y Terror (2020); Revivencial (1989); Santo in the Treasure of Dracula (1969); Satisfyingly Scary (2020); Scars of Dracula (1970); Scary Stories Around the Fire (2023–2024); Selecciones de Cineficción Radio (2024); Shadow Builder (1998); Siesta Z (2017); Slains (2020); Special Collector's Edition (2014); Sunday Suspense Bangla (2023); Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970); Telegram (2020); That really old vampire movie (2014); The Awakening (1980); The Brides of Dracula (1960); The Curious Case of R.M. Renfield (2006); The Dracula Monologues (2024); The Empire of Dracula (1967); The Final Voyage of the Good Ship Demeter (2012); The Games of Countess Dolingen (1981); The Heartless Cruelty of Lucy Westenra (2023); The Lair of the White Worm (1988); The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023); The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires (1974); The Living Corpse (1967); The Monster (2008); The Moon, The Bat, The Monster (2019); The Mummy Resurrected (2014); The Return of Dracula (1958); The UnXplained (2020); The Vampire's Ghost (1945); The Weary Traveler (2016); This Ain't Dracula XXX (2011); Un, dos, tres... responda otra vez (2004); Vampyre (2015); Vampyros Lesbos (1971); Van Helsing (2004); Walking on Water (2015); Walpurgis Nacht (2004); Way of the Vampire (2005).

Born on this day – Sarah Fielding:

Sarah Fielding

Writer

November 8, 1710 – April 9, 1768

Credits:

The Adventures of David Simple (1744); Familiar Letters between the Principal Characters in David Simple (1747); The Governess, or The Little Female Academy (1749); Remarks on Clarissa (1749); David Simple: Volume the Last (1753); The Cry: A New Dramatic Fable (1754); The Lives of Cleopatra and Octavia (1757); The History of the Countess of Dellwyn (1759); The History of Ophelia (1761); Xenophon's Memoirs of Socrates, with the Defense of Socrates Before His Judges (1762).

Which reading position are you?

I am number 6:

Kurt Cobain, on inspiration:

Thank you for the tragedy.

I need it for my art.

- Kurt Cobain.

On this day in music history - Almost Christmas, by Lee Aaron (2020):

Almost Christmas

Album by Lee Aaron,

released November 7, 2020.

Track list:

Everything’s Gonna Be Cool This Christmas; Baby Please Come Home; Run, Run, Rudolph; It Doesen’t Often Snow at Christmas; Zat You Santa Claus?; I Don’t Believe in Christmas; Merry Christmas Everybody; All I Ever Get for Christmas Is Blue; Peace on Earth; The Fiddle and the Drum; Almost Christmas; More Fun on the Naughty List.