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Friday, 5 August 2016

Blavatsky and Pop Culture


A young Blavatsky as anime character
A young Blavatsky is a Japanese animation character with purple hair:
http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2016/09/02/illyasviel-meets-her-new-rivals-in-animated-commercial-for-fategrand-order-x-fatekaleid-liner-prisma-illya-event

Sleepy Hollow TV Series has a powerful item known as the Blavatsky Map:
http://www.buddytv.com/articles/sleepy-hollow/sleepy-hollow-season-4-finale-59550.aspx

 Blavatsky in Hellboy creator Mike Mignola comic book series, Abe Sapien:
Annotating The Secret History of 'Abe Sapien' #30 | http://comicsalliance.com/secret-history-abe-sapien-annotations-santiago-caruso/?trackback=tsmclip

Blavatsky inspires gothic TV series set in late-nineteenth century:
That’s pretty heady stuff for emo horror, but it reflected the conflict of the times the series is set. The late nineteenth century was a high point in spiritualist history. Madame Helena Blavatsky of the Theosophical Society died in 1891. Arthur Conan Doyle was attending séances and founding the Fortean Society. Bram Stoker, H. G. Wells, Jules Verne and Robert Louis Stevenson were all busy turning future movie ideas into novels. Inventing science fiction. Inventing horror. Oscar Wilde was reinventing Goth fashion.
http://www.denofgeek.com/us/tv/penny-dreadful/256456/penny-dreadful-season-4-could-have-happened-but-why

Katherine Howe short story features a character named Madame Blavatsky:
“Spirits who are at peace cannot be disturbed,” the woman goes on, trying to talk over our whispering. “Anyone we reach will have a purpose for being here. It’s our job to determine what that purpose is. To help them. Bringing them peace will bring us peace, too.”
http://www.ew.com/article/2015/07/06/excerpt-appearance-annie-van-sinderen-katherine-howe
 
New Mexican  novel by Hipolito Calle with theosophical themes titled, Blavatsky, the secret circle:
“Blavatsky, el círculo secreto” es una novela con toques de esoterismo, simbologías ocultas, filosofía y misticismo, como puede deducirse de su alusión directa a la teósofa rusa del s.XIX, Helena Blavatsky. Tres jóvenes personajes de la actualidad se enredan en un misterio que les lleva al Madrid antiguo, con sus calles empedradas, sus soportales misteriosos y sus librerías con pasillos angostos que esconden no pocos secretos.
http://www.guadaque.com/blavatsky-el-circulo-secreto-una-novela-para-conocer-lo-desconocido
 
Mexican language novel, Spectres of New York by José Ricardo Chaves has a theosophical setting, author discusses Blavatsky influence:
http://www.nacion.com/ocio/literatura/Jose-Ricardo-Chaves-Helena-Blavatsky_0_1522447783.html

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