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August 16, 2005
Bela Lugosi's Dead
![[ image: 7 Faces of Lugosi ]](http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y124/tacitus/bela_lugosi.jpg)
I won't reiterate what's already been written about Bela Lugosi and his profound impact on the vampire genre and Count Dracula in particular -- a role that proved both a blessing and a curse for this actor from Transylvania. Google or Yahoo are far better regurgitative resources than I, but I think IMDb and Wikipedia provide passable summaries of Lugosi's career; the highs and the lows.
I will however indulge my dork side and bow to the lyrics of the Bauhaus song from which this post draws its title:
White on white translucent black capes
Back on the rack
Bela Lugosi's dead
The bats have left the bell tower
The victims have been bled
Red velvet lines the black box
Bela Lugosi's dead
Undead undead undead
The virginal brides file past his tomb
Strewn with time's dead flowers
Bereft in deathly bloom
Alone in a darkened room
The count
Bela Logosi's dead
Undead undead undead
Bela Lugosi remembered (October 20, 1882 - August 16, 1956).
Posted by Tacitus at August 16, 2005 09:58 AM