Dear Sara,
Which cultures have or had vampire myths?
Sincerely, Max S.
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The Greyfriar (Book One of Vampire Empire)
Author: Clay Griffith and Susan Griffith
Publisher: Pyr Science Fiction & Fantasy
ISBN: 978-1-61614-247-6
Rating: Two Thumbs Up (Alternately: 8 out of 10)
Book Source: Advance Reading Copy from publisher (Pyr Science Fiction & Fantasy)
Release Date: November 2, 2010
In the 1870 of a world very much like our own, vampires emerged from the shadows to conquer most of Europe, Asia and North America. Vicious and evil, the north’s new overlords farmed their human prey like cattle, destroying their humanity, as well as their civilization.
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An interview with author Rachel Caine:
The Vampires Of: Rachel Caine
By Jean Marie Ward
Small Texas college towns can be hazardous to your health-if you’re an ordinary human in the world of Rachel Caine’s Morganville Vampires. Just ask Claire Danvers, the brainy teenage heroine of Ms. Caine’s bestselling Young Adult series. Better yet, ask Ms. Caine.
What started you writing the Morganville Vampires?
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JULIET LANDAU INTERVIEW
By Abbie Bernstein
Juliet Landau is a woman of many talents. As an actress, she has a long string of credits, though she is perhaps best known for her terrifying yet beguiling psychic vampire Drusilla on BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER and its spin-off ANGEL. As a writer, she recently penned a two-part comic about Drusilla for IDW and has scripted a short film, IT’S RAINING CATS AND CATS.
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Hollywood’s Crush on Vampires
by Stefica Budimir-Bekan
US production companies have been shooting films and TV shows about vampires, shape-shifters and other mythological creatures for ages but never before have those series created such hype around the globe. Vampires are the new heroes.
The film “Twilight,” based on the bestseller vampire series by Stephenie Meyer was released on 21 November 2008 and broke records at the US box offices with a 70.6 million dollars opening haul at the first weekend. The sequel “New Moon” was highly anticipated and hit the big screen on November 27, 2009 in the UK. The second-season premiere of “True Blood” based on the “The Southern Vampire Mysteries” series of novels by Charlaine Harris has become the most-watched programme with 3.7 million viewers on the US premium cable network HBO since the finale of “The Sopranos” more than two years ago. And last but not least, the series premiere of the CW’s The “Vampire Diaries” on 10 September 2009 was watched by 4.8 million viewers, a bigger audience than any other channel had to date. But, why are vampire stories so popular? Does love really suck? Read More→
Spike vs. Eric Northman
Why Choose?
© Buzzy Multimedia
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→
