Purple Parsonage

Keighley News reports that the Brontë Parsonage Museum is going to be illuminated purple for a good cause.

Two landmark buildings in Haworth are changing colour this week.

The Brontë Parsonage Museum and the village's parish church are both being illuminated purple.

Haworth & Worth Valley Rotarians have been given the go-ahead to temporarily adjust the floodlighting to mark a Rotary International polio awareness campaign.

Purple is the campaign colour, and this is the second year that the Haworth & Worth Valley club has been granted permission to alter the floodlights of the two iconic buildings – which attract Brontë enthusiasts and tourists from across the world. (Alistair Shand)

Wealth of Geeks lists the '25 Best Scary Movies Based on Books (And Aren’t by Stephen King)' and one  of them is

7. I Walked With a Zombie (1943)

Modern viewers will be shocked to find no flesh-eating ghouls in I Walked With a Zombie, not realizing that zombies before Night of the Living Dead were mind-controlled figures from Haitian mythology, not brain-munchers. Viewers will also be shocked by the familiarity of the screenplay, for which writers Curt Siodmak and Ardel Wray borrow from the Charlotte Brontë novel Jane Eyre, shifting the tale of a husband (Tom Conway) courting a nurse (Frances Dee) while hiding his troubled first wife (Christine Gordon) to Haiti.

The film may not be the most frightening, but director Val Lewton brings his characteristic atmospheric romance. (Joe George)

Cyprus Mail on what's on stage this month:

In late October, Theatro Anemona will present Emily Bronte’s classic novel, Wuthering Heights. The passionate and doomed love affair will entertain Nicosia theatre lovers every weekend until early December before it travels to Larnaca, Limassol and Paphos for more shows. [...]

Wuthering Heights

Greek adaptation of Emily Brontë’s novel. Every Friday, Saturday and Sunday until December 3. Anemona Theatre, Nicosia. Friday-Saturday: 8.30pm. Sunday: 7.30pm. December 7. G.Lykourgos Municipal Theatre, Larnaca. December 12. Rialto Theatre, Limassol. December 14. Markideio Theatre, Paphos. 8.30pm. In Greek. (Eleni Philippou)

The Times's quiz for today has a Brontë-related question:

10 Which Anne Brontë novel’s title heroine marries the curate Edward Weston? (Olav Bjorotmt)

The Brussels Brontë Blog reports on a recent talk by Dr Claire O'Callaghan based on her book Emily Brontë Reappraised.