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With the countless vampire tales out there you could find hundreds or even thousands of different types of vampires. But there is one way, out of many, to categorize them – scientific vampires and magical vampires. We have met many vampires in novels, television, and movies, and these vampire are either beings of magic or …
With all the terrible vampire movies that show up on DVD and Netflix year after year, don’t you wish Hollywood would try to make movies out of some good vampire novels? You know, the ones with good plots and interesting characters? Well, for what it’s worth, here’s my list of 5 novels I’d love to see adapted …
Over the years, many a comedy about the undead have popped up. Most end up forgettable, while others (Lesbian Vampire Killers for example) we rather long to forget. Only a very few end up almost universally accepted as good. Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein for example seems a classic but really depends almost entirely upon …
Okay, am I the only True Blood fan who feels like this show has jumped the shark? Not just the shark, either, but also the school of rabid piranha that live next to the shark? With the new season about to start and anticipation building, I thought this might be the right time for me …
Few can doubt that Chuck Hogan and Guillermo del Toro created something evocative and powerful in their vampire trilogy The Strain. Amid the tributes to classic vampire fiction and cinema, they told a harrowing tale. Not simply about a terrible form of undead. They did that! Definitely! But more–they created a genuine epic. Here was …
Seventeen years ago, a television first premiered on the young FOX network: a prime time dramatic series based on the popular (and controversial) role-playing game Vampire: The Masquerade. Produced by Aaron Spelling, it debuted to fanfare and uncertain expectations. The plot centered around the Kindred of San Francisco, a secret society of vampires with a …
Tim Burton’s film of the 1960s gothic soap opera was not the second, the third or even the seventh such adaptation. In fact, it counts as the tenth! Apart from the original t.v. series, no less than three comic book versions have been produced (one, from Dynamite, even matching up Barnabas Collins with Vampirella!), an …
One of my favorite starting points for creating new vampire characters is to look around at my favorite characters from other genres and imagine what kind of vampire they might make. I also do this with historical figures, as anyone who’s read Ancient Blood can tell you, but that’s a different article. My choices here …
We’ve all been there. You’re reading a book you picked up on impulse because it sounded good when, a few chapters in, you’re struggling to maintain interest because every character and situation seems like something you’ve read a dozen times before in other books. Don’t you hate that? Editors and agents go through that a …
The whole idea of a musical based on Dracula or Interview With the Vampire or something like it feels “off” somehow. Probably because when we think of musicals the titles that come to mind include Oklahoma! or Guys and Dolls or some such lite fare. Images of Maria coming to Baron Von Trapp’s home to …
Just for fun, here’s a list of excellent–some might even say “best”–vampires to be found on television. A personal list to be sure, but offered with sincerity. Your own views most welcome as well! Buffy the Vampire Slayer has so many great vampire characters I force myself to just choose two–the Sid Vicious and Nancy …
For my book Your Vampire Story (And How to Write It) I drew up a list of major vampire films for the past three decades or so. In all that time I found few years that did not have some film that didn’t either come from a major studio, or feature a A List movie …
Fear not, fans of vampiric cinema! Twilight is over, Dario Argento’s Dracula 3D has come and pretty much gone, Dark Shadows didn’t do well enough to spark a sequel. But other vampire films are on their way! One of these comes from the fertile mind of Neil Jordon, the man who also gave us Interview …
Oh vampires, how I love thee, let me count the ways… Ahem! Anyway, total cheesiness aside, today’s post is dedicated to our love for vampires (Valentine’s Day is just a few weeks away). More specifically, why we love vampires. Because lists are always a good time, I thought we’d list off 5 things we love …
Consider the scene most expected in almost any vampire film. A supposedly virginal young woman opens her eyes in the middle of the night. She gets up, her translucent gown billowing slightly as she moves in the moonlight. Then she opens the window before returning to the bed, lying down in expectant terror. A fully …
One problem any popular genre develops tends to be tropes that pervade too much of it all. In and of themselves, maybe they work. Often they work quite well. They can, anyway. But when we see the same thing over and over and over again, we enter into the realm of the cliche. So here’s …
We here at Vampires.Com offer details of what we hope to see regarding our favorite subject in the coming new year! In no particular order… More vampire horror! A more classical feral vampire, like those in 30 Days of Night featuring the vampire with ferocious bloodlust. It’s not about the gore but the characterization of …
Way back in the 1970s, Hammer films had plans (never realized) to make a fourth Karnstein film as a follow-up to Twins of Evil. The title was to have been Vampire Virgins. When I heard of the following graphic novel, little wonder if I wondered about any possible connection! Virgin Vampires (or Once Upon a …
I don’t read as much as I’d like anymore. One more reason to gladly review things for vampires.com since this forces a return to one of life’s great treasures: Reading! Ancient Blood: A Novel of the Hegemony came to me about a month ago. Let us start right now with the title. A tad pretentious …
It’s Christmas time! And what better way to spend these chilly nights than curled up with a good holiday book? Getting cozy with a vampire holiday book! That’s right vampire lovers, there are actually quite a few vampire Christmas books out there ready for your reading pleasure. Check some of them out… (click titles to …