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One of the more well-known Stoics today is Seneca. He lived before Marcus Aurelius by roughly around One Hundred to Two Hundred years. Similar to Marcus Aurelius' work, the Meditations, Seneca also wrote various letters, the difference being to whom the letters are addressed.

This was hilarious. Like the style of "The Office" but with flatmates who happens to be vampires.  It maintains the usual elements with Vampires. No reflection, blood suckers etc. It also keeps that "Friends"-like arc with flatmates or room mates where the usual conflicts and hilarity ensues.  They could make a franchise out of this or a trilogy similar to Edgar Wright's Cornetto trilogy.

This was a silent horror film made around 1922 in Germany. This movie helped Bram Stoker's original Dracula gain more popularity. Mostly because the estate didn't want to give its rights, ensuing a legal complication.

It appears Hollywood made a killing of a Frankenstein franchise around the 1930's, the same way superheroes movies are created successively these days. This would be the first Frankenstein film I've seen in the list of sequels written in its Wikipedia  page. I've seen various incarnations from Hotel Transylvania to popular cartoons growing up, and a couple months back, the main source written by Mary Shelley.

I am angry. Why in the world did this happen. I  thought this was going to be a sad story. And it is but it has made me angry that a person rose to power with the ideals of killing people. I  saw Schindler's List when I was a teen, roughly the same age when Anne wrote the diary. I remember it being a big deal at the time. But I didn't get to have any emotional weight to it. It appeared as something that only grown ups talk about.

"You have to go through that pain at some point because if you live constantly confined with your unwillingness to go through pain, you do not develop into who you are supposed to be." This was from a podcast episode of the Art of Charm with Russell Brand. 

Antifragile, is like if the stoics had a 21st century background in risk, volatility and randomness.