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Book Review: The Vampire Tapestry by Suzy McKee Charnas

Posted on January 8, 2009 by admin

The Vampire Tapestry was first published in 1980, at the end of the Carter recession and the cusp of the Reagan era. Americans were bored with vampires. Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire (1976) and Stephen King’s Dracula Americana, Salem’s … Continue reading →

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VVC Organizational Statement

Posted on November 5, 2008 by admin

The purpose of the Voices of the Vampire Community (VVC) is to develop friendly relations among the various Houses, Covens, Orders, organizations, and individual leaders of the vampire community; to encourage cooperation in solving community related problems and in promoting … Continue reading →

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Book Review: A Dangerous Climate by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Posted on October 2, 2008 by admin

A Dangerous Climate (Tor: September 30, 2008) is the twentieth novel by author Chelsea Quinn Yarbro detailing an episode in the very long life of her benign vampire hero, Count Ferenz Ragoczy Saint-Germain. It would be understandable, after so many … Continue reading →

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Anti-Vampire Hate Speech in Pittsburgh

Posted on September 17, 2008 by admin

On September 14, 2008, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review published an op-ed piece titled, Don’t let your children grow up to be…” by an anonymous writer identified only with the explanation, “Dateline D.C. is written by a Washington-based British journalist and political … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Vampyres of Hollywood by Adrienne Barbeau and Michael Scott

Posted on September 10, 2008 by admin

The most obvious bit of satire in Vampyres of Hollywood (St. Martins: July 2008) is the suggestion that the great stars of the Golden Age of Cinema are literally, not just figuratively, “immortal.” But the entire novel, written by actress … Continue reading →

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I guess pigs are flying!

Posted on May 13, 2008 by admin

In this post on March 10, I reported on a snide remark made against “vampire chat rooms” in the “Annie’s Mailbox” advice column. I sent the columnists an e-mail, and so did a number of people I know, although many … Continue reading →

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Book Review: The Saint-Germain Memoirs by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Posted on May 13, 2008 by admin

The Saint-Germain Memoirs is the third collection of stories featuring Chelsea Quinn Yarbro’s popular vampire hero, Count Rogoczy Saint-Germain. The Saint-Germain novels are long, leisurely, meticulously researched books set in historical time periods ranging from dynastic Egypt to the twentieth … Continue reading →

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Another gratuitious swipe at the online vampiric community

Posted on March 10, 2008 by admin

I don’t usually read mundane advice columns. I’m always suspicious of the veracity of the letters and the advice generally ranges from “calculated to preserve the conventional status quo” to downright dangerous and bad. For example, I’ve seen people in … Continue reading →

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Oh, look, someone chewed me out!

Posted on January 3, 2008 by admin

When ignorant little young people write to me and chew me out, I’m going to post their letters here on this blog, with my comments. Here is an e-mail I just received, reproduced exactly: Shame on you! {Hello to you, … Continue reading →

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The Lost Boys 2: The Tribe

Posted on December 18, 2007 by admin

The website Shock Till You Drop has an interview with Hans Rodionoff, the screenwriter for Lost Boys 2: The Tribe, currently in post-production. Twenty years after Joel Schumacher’s The Lost Boys redefined the cinematic vampire and launched the “punk vampire … Continue reading →

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