Vampires Today: The Truth About Modern Vampirism by Joseph Laycock is a new book that has been getting fantastic reviews for it’s unbiased look into real modern vampires. The book poses the questions… What does it mean to be a vampire? Is it a medical condition? Is it a fantasy? Is vampirism a religion?
Joseph Laycock interviews members of the Atlanta Vampire Alliance and others within vampire communities throughout the United States. The books introduces you to “life style” vampires, who are those that have adopted the look and feel from vampires of art and legend. Then it goes into “real vampires” who feel that they need to consume blood and/or psychic energy in order to survive. In this book the Order of the Vampyre, the Ordo Strigoi Vii, and the Temple of the Vampire are also looked into and explained.
To go ahead and quote the book jacket itself…
“Throughout the world, untold numbers of people are identifying as “vampires” and following the ways of “vampirism.” In the past two decades, modern vampirism has come under increased study, yet most scholarship has portrayed the vampire as a cultural phenomenon and at worst as a religious cult.
Having interviewed many vampires across the country, both “lifestylers” and “real,” even those “reluctants” who try not to be vampires, Laycock argues that today’s vampires are best understood as an identity group and that vampirism has caused a profound change in how individuals choose to define themselves. As vampires come “out of the coffin,” either as followers of a “religion” or “lifestyle” or as people biologically distinct from other humans, their confrontation with mainstream society will raise questions about the definition of “normal” and what it means to be human. Here, readers will find the details of real vampire life—including vampire role-playing games, grimoires, “vampyre” balls, vampire houses like House Sahjaza and House Kheperu, the vampire “caste” system, and other details—utterly fascinating.”
Every review I have read on this book gives it major props. Reviewers are lined up to compliment Laycock on his intellectual yet unbiased explanation of this fascinating world of real vampires.
- Moonlight
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if they are real i mean the “monster” kinds it would be very cool. i (now) love Vampires and think they are very cool. my life i never had anything cool only bad things always happen but i would be very happy (and a little scard) to meet a vampire. anywways i will be looking for this book to read it sounds cool.
I THINK IT WOULD BE COOL TO MEET A REAL VAMPIRE
SINCE I HAVE SEEN TWILIGHT , TRUE BLOOD AND ON THE
10TH OF SEPT THE MOVIE VAMPIRE DIARIES IS
GOING TO BE ON AND I HAVE SEEN
THE UNDERWORLD: THE RISE OF THE lYCANS IT WAS REALLY GOOD
michael sheen was in it and now hes going to be in NEW MOON
PLAYING ON THE HEAD VOULTI VAMPIRE COVEN.
i really hope that there are real vampires out there too.
Vampires do exist, I myself am one, But society has either bashed us or made us out to be something were not.
Vampires, just like lepers, are things that have always existed (Or at least, that is how I see it). However, the word and idea of vampires, a bit like lepers was, is a taboo. So taboo that they have become mysterious and sexy creatures to all but the vampires themselves (Okay, maybe they do find some mystique and sex-appeal in themselves and/or others, but no more than you or I would among those of our own ‘kind’).
I personally would love to meet and maybe start a relationship with (and I’m talking friend/lover/whatever. Just any kind of relationship) a vampire/vampier/vampyre/vamp. Purely because I find them fascinating (Did I spell that right?) and because I think it would be an amazing experience.
P.S. Where can I find a copy of the above mentioned book?
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Click the link in the first paragraph :)