Spike vs. Eric Northman
Why Choose?
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Being a Vampirologist it is part of my job to keep at least half an eye a quarter of the way open and focused on what new fictional vampire books, movies and TV shows are out there. Well, my job just got a whole lot easier now that Eric Northman is primed to take a larger role in the HBO series “True Blood.”
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My Favorite Vampire:
The Pishtaco
by Theresa Bane
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Lots of people are interested in vampires, as can be proven by the wild success of books like Twilight, the Sookie Stackhouse series, 
and the classic Interview With A Vampire. But for me, reading vampire fiction or watching vampire movies is difficult because I know the history and the mythology of the vampire so intimately that I get hung-up in the details. I know that authors use artistic license to make the vampire their own creation so that it best fits into the fictional world that they have created. What bothers me is that so many authors who utilize vampires in their fiction do not bother to do any research into vampires to begin with and simply alter someone else’s fictional vampire into their own. Paraphrasing is not inventing, it’s the watering down and streamlining of something else. To “re-invent” something that has been paraphrased is not creating something new and original. Read More→
Sookie Stackhouse’s Squad of Suitors:
HBO’s True Blood & the Southern Vampire Book Series
by June Willimas
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Whether you are a fan of “The Southern Vampire” series by author Charlaine Harris, or a newly turned devotee that came into the fold with the start of the True Blood television series one thing should be clear to you, 
Sookie Stackhouse can now choose from a smorgasbord of attractive males. I’ll admit that I’ve read all the books in the series and I have my favorite but for the sake of fairness, at least in this post there will be an objective assessment of all five males.
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The Allure of Magic
Something to Consider
By Martin Lambert
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What is it about magic that draws us in? So many realms, of fiction and fantasy, base themselves in universes where magic is real. We consume these works with voracious appetites, and scream for more. I have been as seduced by them as any other person, and more than some. Magic was defined in one book I read years ago as: any attempt to influence the universe through non conventional means, to include, thought, use of magic words, and or the use magical substances or tools. Magic has been a part of every culture on the planet, and you will find people anywhere you look who are involved in it.
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Werewolves:
Origins in European Folklore
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by Matt Walker
You know what a werewolf is. Everyone does. The academic word for werewolf is “Lycanthrope”. A Greek word because Greek - even before Latin - was the language of scholars.
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Zombies, Gods and Voodoo
by John Winn
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They come out of the grave, products of the Devil, witchcraft or experiments gone horribly wrong, stalking us as a hound stalks its prey until no one is immune from their quest for brains or souls. The fear of zombies is so engrained in us that they have been immortalized in movies and popular culture dating back several decades. Yet the reality is zombies-or at least the zombie myth-has been around much longer. In fact, they are said to predate organized religion itself. Though the origin of the zombie myth is as murky as ancient tales of old, scholars and novelists have been mining the depths of recorded knowledge, inspired by the mystery surrounding these strange beings.
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Bite, Hype, and Bandwagons:
The Truth about Vampires
by Theresa Bane
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Not a lot of people can say that their parents brag about what their children do for a living, but I don’t have that problem. My dad introduces me as his daughter the famous author and my mom proudly tells folks, when asked, that her daughter is the vampirologist they saw on Discovery Channel.
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