bloodthirsty, hunger and bloodlust
So Dear Readers, I just finished reading Aleron, the first novel in Kane’s Strigoi series, a novel in which the author weaves a historical story of blood, death and immortality – the three things every vampire story needs. Kane’s debut novel chronicles Aleron’s life as a mortal, his death and his rebirth as an immortal …
As I’m sure you are well aware, there are an enormous amount of vampire societies and organizations that exist today. These groups range widely in their purpose: from vampiric literary scholars and students to more occult and spiritually focused endeavors. Many vampire organizations require membership and can be quite exclusive in terms of sharing information, …
YES! They have finally made a new BloodRayne video game! After years and years of waiting for a new game but getting nothing but terrible movies instead I was beginning to lose hope, but at long last, Rayne is back in a brand new game. BloodRayne: Betrayal doesn’t come out for a few more months …
Ah, l’amour… at least, I hope. As you all know, I’m a devout member of Team Damon, and according to the latest on the blog-o-sphere, Damon and Elena are headed to Paris. Stars Ian Somerhalder and Nina Dobrev have apparently been dating! Le gasp! But, though they are vacationing together in Paris, they’ve brought their …
As you may remember, a while back I wrote about the top ten vampire movies, so you may be wondering why I am making another top ten list. Well, the films compiled on that list (see it here) were the highest rated vampire movies based on thousands of votes. Since it was based on ratings …
Filming has officially begun on the Tim Burton film “Dark Shadows,” the latest adaptation of the cult classic, a gothic soap opera from the late 1960s. “Dark Shadows” focused on a guilt-ridden vampire and his modern-day family in Maine. Two previous attempts to reboot the television series as a weekly primetime drama ultimately never really …
That’s right movie lovers, Vampire-Con Film Festival is returning for the third year! The film fest will take place at The New Beverly Cinema in Los Angeles and is running for two nights. Two nights of classic fangtastic vampire flicks! Woo! Originally created to include ALL fans of vampires, Vampire-Con continues its tradition of showcasing …
Coming June 1st is author B.E. Scully’s Verland: The Transformation, a vampire book unlike any other. It tells the tale of true crime writer Elle Bramasol, who is drawn into a macabre mystery when incarcerated Hollywood producer Eliot Kingman asks her to write a book about his case. As she delves deeper into Kingman’s murder …
Ever watched Sanctuary on SyFy? Probably one of the best shows ever on the channel, –except of course for Being Human and maybe Mad Mad House. Anyway, I love the show. It’s premise is: there are billions of “abnormals”, –mythical creatures of folklore, legend, mythology, and more, scientific anomalies, aliens, bacteria. Mermaids and cavemen and …
Good news for all of the Twi-hards out there! Summit Entertainment, the folks behind the Twilight flicks, has finally released a teaser poster for The Twilight Saga’s Breaking Dawn: Part I. Unfortunately this little poster doesn’t feature any of your beloved Twilight characters, it simply displays the title of the film, the release date and …
In 1797 the brilliant German poet and novelist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe published a poem titled Die Braut von Korinth, a poem that forever changed the way people saw vampire literature. Later translated to The Bride of Corinth, this beautifully dark poem is believed to have been based on the classic tale by Phlegon of …
I won’t lie, –in my opinion, the Vampire Diaries is definitely a girls sow; there are a few things to attract the discerning males, –good action scenes, a few unbelievably hot chicks, and even some horror. But for the most part, it falls into the realm of ‘supernatural romantic drama’. Which is fine, really, but …
Our beloved vampire slayer, Sarah Michelle Gellar, played the role of Buffy on the former WB network for seven glorious seasons, and now, after a long television break, Sarah will return to the network (now called The CW) in the fall for the new drama Ringer. The ass kicking starlet chatted about coming back to …
The second I picked this book up I was wary, because while I loved the House of Night series at first that love quickly turned to disappointment once I realized that the authors cared more about cashing in on their success than writing quality novels. A story that started out strong turned into pointless pages …
Seems like you have to be either royalty or a super-high powered network executive to get ahold of any good True Blood season 4 action; then again, on the other hand, after seeing so many promos and videos, it’s hard to want to see any more. We don’t want the show to get ruined for …
Kim Newman is the brilliant man behind the innovative novel Anno Dracula, a book which not only earned high praise from Neil Gaiman himself but also won the Dracula Society’s Children of the Night Award, the Lord Ruthven Assembly’s Fiction Award, and the International Horror Guild Award for Best Novel, and was even short-listed for …
Whatever could that titled be referring too? A story of course. Four Wooden Stakes is a little-known short story that first appeared in 1925 in Weird Tales. Written by Victor Rowan the story, well, it didn’t do too well when it first came out. Critics argued that the tale was too conventional and predictable. However, …
Disney has finally succumbed to the vampire fever and will be giving all of their vampire-lovin’ fans something to watch this summer – My Babysitter’s a Vampire. And they’re not stopping at just a vampire movie, there’s also going to be a 13-episode TV show of the same name. It’s going to be a good …
You’ve seen Tru-Blood, the ‘blood orange’ soda that has the kiddies going crazy, and of course the incredibly expensive True Blood jewelry line, –as well as the not-so-expensive jewelry on HBO’s official True Blood merchandise store. But there are about a thousand different things you can find out there, with witty True Blood-isms on them, …
Coming to select theaters May 27 is the all-female vampire thriller We Are the Night! The film was released in Germany a while back and honestly, I didn’t think it would make its way to the US. But I should have known better, we Americans love hot women, fast cars, loud music and of course, …