I might be considered a vampire hoarder, if you took a look at my bookshelves, my closets, my home. There are vampire books, vampire comics, vampire t-shirts, vampire games, vampire things of all sorts everywhere. I like to consider myself a huge vampire fan, and some of you are probably a lot like me. Many of us have been this way as long as we can remember. I certainly have. I shared my love of scary movies with my mom. She was a huge influence in nurturing my appreciation for horror by introducing me to great series like the Creature Feature and Chiller Theater. Growing up in the Detroit area, my interest was spiked by local celebrity horror hosts such as the Ghoul, and Sir Graves Ghastly, and the Hilarious House of Frightenstein. Each weekend and sometimes after school I’d catch an old horror film laced with regular intermissions of original short skits or hilarious morbid songs by a cast of spooky yet silly characters. If you didn’t grow up with horror hosts, you just don’t know what you missed! It was then that I’d usually dress-up like the vampire on Halloween, eagerly running from door to door with my pillow case with fangs and fake blood in a cape with my hair slicked back. It was all magical, and thrilling and even today my love for the vampire is fueled by the nostalgia. I also like the classic monsters — werewolves and zombies — still, the vampire is my personal favorite. If you go back and read some of our early posts you’ll get a good feel for that. If you haven’t already, I’d highly recommend it! Especially if you love the vampire in folklore. The Vampire Timeline is also a really good place to start.
Next week, I’ll share my top 10 favorite vampires.com posts with you. You might have to remind me!
Each new decade brings new vampires, and new interpretations, and digs up the old interests. Sometimes it’s absolutely wonderful, but often it’s just terrible and becomes a sad parody of the original. Through some of these periods, the hype can be too much and we’ll quickly grow sick of it. Kind of like loving chocolate milk, or donuts, or pizza, but getting sick of it after eating too much or too often. Maybe it happens in book 4 or 5 of a great vampire book series. Maybe it happens in seasons 3 or 4 of our favorite vampire tv series; can you relate?
It’s a dilemma we all face at one time or another as huge fans or truly obsessed. Our passion wanes. The magic is lost for awhile. What makes it worse, is if we need to write about it regularly. It’s not easy to hold onto that magic when you’re struggling to find something entertaining to share about the vampire every single day. There just isn’t excitement or drama or interesting news to share. We’re left coming up with less interesting tidbits. I’m hoping to remedy that in the coming weeks and maybe we’ll focus on quality over quantity. I’m also hoping to add more fun, and imagery than just lots of words so that you can enjoy skimming the site too when you have less time. I’d love for you to return when you have a little more time and read some of our posts. We really appreciate it when you pause a few minutes to give us feedback. We love your comments. Most of the time it’s the only thing that encourages us to continue.
So, what do we do? I want you to share this with friends and/or family that you think might have an interest in vampires or even the vampire lifestyle. I’m interested in hearing what may have worked for you or them in the past to keep the magic alive and nurture an interest in vampires. Oh, and if I may take this moment please Like us on Facebook, and Follow us on Twitter!
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