VOP: Opening Bits

Since almost the beginning of Vampires of Pittsburgh, Ross Bryant has been introduced, at the beginning of the show, with a recurring bit. It often involves a dramatic turn towards the camera, with him caught in the middle of reading one of his many esoteric tomes or admiring a piece from his cassette tape collection.

### Chronicle 1

* Ep 2 – Dramatic turn to face the camera
* Ep 3 – Book – *The Black Arts* by Richard Cavendish
* Ep 4 – Dramatic turn to face the camera. Ross admits he is now “locked in” to the bit.
* Ep 5 – Book – *Doctor Faustus* by Christopher Marlowe
* Ep 6 – Book – *Satan’s Disciples* by Robert Goldston
* Ep 7 – Book – *Dark Side: The Satan* Story by William C. Tremmel
* Ep 8 – Book – *The Inferno* by Dante Alighieri
* Ep 9 – Book – Continues with *The Inferno*
* Ep 10 – Book – Continues with *The Inferno*
* Ep 11 – Book – *The Curious Lore of Precious Stones* by George Frederick Kunz
* Ep 12 – Book – *Soundings in Satanism* by Francis Joseph Sheed
* Ep 13 – Book – Continues with *The Curious Lore of Precious Stones*
* Ep 14 – Book – *The Vampyre* by John Polidori, within the anthology book called *Three Gothic Novels* edited by E. F. Bleiler. The other stories included are *The Castle of Otranto* by Horace Walpole and *Vathek* by William Beckford
* Ep 15 – Book – *Paradise Lost* by John Milton
* Ep 17 – Book – *La-Bas (Down There)* by Joris K. Huysmans
* Ep 18 – Book – *The Gnostic Scriptures* by Bentley Layton
* Ep 20 – Book – *Satanism and Witchcraft* by Jules Michelet
* Ep 21 – Book – *Vathek* by William Beckford, part of the *Three Gothic Novels* anthology
* Ep 22 – Book – *The Origin of Satan* by Elaine Pagels
* Ep 23 – Book – *Henry VI, part 2* by William Shakespeare
* Ep 24 – Book – *Against Nature* by J. K. Huysmans
* Ep 25 – Book – *The Faerie Queene* by Edmund Spenser
* Ep 26 – Book – *Egil’s Saga*
* Ep 27 – Book – *Paradise Regained* by John Milton
* Ep 28 – Book – *The Spanish Tragedy* by Thomas Kyd
* Ep 29 – Book – *Dune* by Frank Herbert
* Ep 30 – Book – *The Greek Myths* by Robert Graves

### Chronicle 2

* Ep 1 – Cassette tape – *Terrorscape* by Kommand
* Ep 2 – Cassette tape – *Cremation Ritual* by Ossuary
* Ep 3 – Book – *The Monster Baru Cormorant* by Seth Dickinson
* Ep 4 – Book – *They Bite* by Anthony Boucher, within the anthology book *Great Black Magic Stories* edited by Michel Parry
* Ep 5 – Cassette tape – *Running to Rhythm: Music to Pace You, Subliminal Messages to Motivate You*, by Artist Unknown
* Ep 6 – Cassette tape – *Forms of Unreasoning Fear* by Mortal Wound
* Ep 7 – MSX game cassette tape – *Nightsade* by Ultimate Play The Game Supplied
* Ep 8 – Book – *The Vixen* by Aleister Crowley, within the anthology book *Great Black Magic Stories* edited by Michel Parry
* Ep 9 – Book – *The Ensouled Violin* by Helena P. Blavatsky, within the anthology book *Great Black Magic Stories* edited by Michel Parry
* Ep 10 – Book – A story within the anthology book *Great Black Magic Stories* edited by Michel Parry
* Ep 11 – Book – *The Poetic Edda*
* Ep 12 – Book – *Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Art of Music* by Alex Ross
* Ep 14 – Book – *High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies* by Erik Davis
* Ep 15 – Art magazine – *By Any Means*
* Ep 16 – Cassette tape – *Night Moves* by Granite Mask
* Ep 17 – Book – *The Occult Sciences in the Renaissance* by Wayne Shumaker
* Ep 19 – Book – *Symbols, Signs & Signets* by Ernst Lehner
* Ep 20 – Book – *The Return of the Sorcerer* by Clark Ashton Smith
* Ep 21 – Book – *Italian Folktales* by Italo Calvino
* Ep 23 – Book – *The King in Yellow* by Robert W. Chambers
* Ep 24 – Book – *God Emperor of Dune* by Frank Herbert
* Ep 25 – Book/Manga – *Opus* by Satoshi Kon

### Chronicle 3

* Ep 1 – Book – *Dungeon Master's Guide, for Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition*, by Wizards of the Coast
* Ep 2 – Book – *The Complete Plays* by Christopher Marlowe
* Ep 3 – Book – *Art Sex Music* by Cosey Fanni Tutti
* Ep 4 – Book – *Shakespeare's Words: A Glossary and Language Companion* by Ben Crystal & David Crystal
* Ep 5 – Cassette tape – *Solitudes - Environmental Sound Experiences, Vol. 3* by Dan Gibson
* Ep 7 – Book – *Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century* by Jonathan Glover
* Ep 8 – Cassette tape – *S/T* by Final Death; a music project created by a SoB fan who send Ross the cassette. Described as "a dungeon, synth, ambient, black metal project, based on the world of Vampire: the Masquerade".
* Ep 9 – Book – *Splendours of the East: Temples, Tombs, Palaces and Fortresses of Asia* edited by Mortimer Wheeler
* Ep 10 – Book – *Tales from the Thousand and One Nights* translated by N.J. Dawood
* Ep 13 (Finale) – Book – *Three Jacobean Tragedie*s edited by Gamini Salgado

### Frankensteins of Pennsylvania

* Ep 2 – Book – *The Mummy Walks Among Us* edited by Vic Ghidalia
* Ep 3 - Book - *The Honourable Schoolboy* by John le Carré
* Ep 4 - Book - *The Age of Chivalry and Legends of Charlemagne* by Thomas Bulfinch
* Ep 5 – Cassette tape – *Foreverglade* by Worm