{"title": "BOOK LAUNCH: The Blood Libel by Furio Jesi, Alberto Toscano with Esther Leslie", "start": "2026-11-03T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-03T22:00:00Z", "place": "maydayrooms", "address": "88 Fleet Street, EC4Y 1DH London", "price": "", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "https://events.maydayrooms.org/e/114/book-launch-the-blood-libel-by-furio-jesi-alberto-toscano-with-esther-leslie", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["society/antisemitism", "literature"], "description": "A book launch celebrating the first English edition of The Blood Libel by Furio Jesi, published by Wirklichkeit Books in 2026. Alberto Toscano, who introduced and translated the work, will be in conversation with Esther Leslie. Written in 1973, the book traces how the 1840 Damascus affair, an anti-Semitic accusation of ritual murder, became a racist myth, contrasting this with an analysis of modern fears projected onto the figure of the vampire. Jesi, an Italian scholar of myth and radical critic, uses his idea of the 'mythological machine' to examine how myth entangles with the politics of exclusion and domination.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/book-launch-the-blood-libel-by-furio-jesi-alberto-toscano-wi-70037/", "official_url": "https://maydayrooms.org/event/book-launch-the-blood-libel-by-furio-jesi-alberto-toscano-with-esther-leslie/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/5375eca6f47dc8c2c13daef81e7f9b69f09f4d9870e4f2049b36b602c69c7515-1200.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-11-03T19:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-03T22:00:00Z", "place": "maydayrooms", "address": "88 Fleet Street, EC4Y 1DH London", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "10.11| Spotkanie Biblioteki Polskiej POSK: Kazimierz Moczarski „Rozmowy z katem\"", "start": "2026-11-10T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Polish Social and Cultural Association", "address": "King Street 238-246, W6 0RF London", "price": "free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/wwii", "literature"], "description": "An event in the series of the Polish Library at POSK, held in the library's reading room. Elżbieta Moczarska will talk about the English edition of Kazimierz Moczarski's book \"Rozmowy z katem\", published in English as \"Conversations with an Executioner: '255 Days with the Nazi who Destroyed the Warsaw Ghetto'\", translated by Sean Gasper Bye. Admission is free.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/1011-spotkanie-biblioteki-polskiej-posk-kazimierz-moczarski-70200/", "official_url": "https://posk.org/event/10-11-spotkanie-biblioteki-polskiej-posk-kazimierz-moczarski-rozmowy-z-katem/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/cba1a50bef4c986b0b3d8d721f8778ca8a9b0da4d974ebda44cc1a94b3c98f1a-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Blood Countess", "start": "2026-10-31T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Picturehouse Central", "address": "Great Windmill Street, W1D 7DH London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/horror/gothic-horror"], "description": "A screening of the film 'The Blood Countess', a spooky gothic romp following Countess Erzsébet Báthory, her loyal maid and her nephew Rudi Budi as they bend time and space in search of a mystical tome that threatens the vampire realm, pursued through Vienna and Bohemia by a police inspector and vampirologists. It was made by the legendary queer filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger, in her usual baroque, campy style mixing belly laughs, eroticism and outrageous fashion choices, and stars Isabelle Huppert as the infamous countess.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-blood-countess-37818/", "official_url": "https://www.picturehouses.com/movie-details/000/HO00018683/cff-the-blood-countess", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1911b35c767a270e4db59ff0311fa70b0c8b40d9243bb18837a102d6f0e1a64b-1200.webp"}]}