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With the third movie installment of the "Twilight" movies, "Twilight Saga: Eclipse," based on Stephenie Meyer's best-selling vampire-romance novels, slated to arrive in theaters on June 30, vampires have once again crept into pop culture's collective consciousness.  While true, undead vampires do not exist, some diseases and disorders show themselves in ways that are similar to vampiric ch

05 Jul 2010 :: T · From Fear to Fascination

The Vampire individual is the first romantic. Paradoxically, too, he's the last grade of romanticism.
As a vampire he's able to listen to the murmur of the world: the night glowing in an almost maddening intensity; the mess of the insect over a leaf can be heard while the statue seems to blink.


The vampire is extremely sensitive. The world of the living is too heavy for him, annihilating. That's why he turns off, why he hides. He's a fobic. Only an intense hunger can force him to go out.

05 Jul 2010 :: T · The Vampyre: His Kith and Kin

A million fancies strike you when you hear the name: Nosferatu!

N O S F E R A T U

does not die!

18 May 2010 :: T · Being Human · On the Page, Stage and Screen

Vampires have always been known as seductive creatures of the night They have pale skin, glowing eyes, and very sharp sexy phallic like fangs. When one says vampire they often think of the very dark Gary Oldman in Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise in Interview with a Vampire, and of course the beautiful vampires in the Twilight movies. But so often there are another group of vampires that are often overlooked- Black Vampires. They are very sensual and sexy creatures. They range from the blaxpoitation of early film to very strong lead characters such as Blade.

23 Feb 2010 :: K+ · On the Page, Stage and Screen
The rise in the popularity of vampires causes one to categorize the type of vampires that we choose to watch. The first category is the fanged vampire. This is the vampire of the past that is a true monster. They have an animalistic need to satiate a hunger that goes beyond human control.
10 Jan 2010 :: T · Angel · Anne Rice · Bram Stoker · Buffy · Dark Shadows · Dracula · Forever Knight · From Fear to Fascination · Tanya Huff · Vampire Chronicles · Van Helsing