Note: This post discusses, in detail, Evernight (2008), Mr. Darcy, Vampyre (2009), Sunshine (2003) and Companions of the Night (1995). If you have not read these books and are planning to, you should probably not read this post, since it contains key plot information and spoilers. In my quest to attempt to understand the new […]
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The Vamps, They Are A-Changin’
I’ve been watching The Vampire Diaries. I’m not going to pussyfoot around it. My interest is purely academic; sometimes I have to force myself to sit down and watch it. Because I’m interested in the contrast between the two different vampire dramas on television right now, and I’m interested in the evolution of the TV […]
1976: A Banner Year in the New Vampire Mythos
Many people argue that Dracula was a key work in the vampire mythos, consolidating legends thousands of years old and creating a unified vision of the vampire for the West. Dracula was adapted into countless films and plays throughout the 20th century, and over 100 years after it was published, copies of this book still […]
Bloody Conclusions
Read a Czech translation of this post, done by Vera! So, I have been reading a lot of young adult vampire fiction lately. And I do mean a lot. I felt like if I was going to talk about it, I needed to read a lot to do it justice; I’m not going to opine […]
The Vampire Mystique
I think we can generally agree that 2008 has been the Year of the Vampire, what with the collective pop culture obsession over vampires being whipped up to a fever pitch. Societies do seem to go through various peaks of vampire frenzy, but this has been a particularly intense year, and I think that the […]