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Are vampires dead and buried - permanently?
17th January 2012 Subscribe Via RSS
The vampire boom may be drawing to a close according to some publishing pundits.
But if you scan through the posts in many reader forums, the bloodsuckers with the looks of an Angelina Jolie or a Johnny Depp are still attracting hosts of readers (mainly female). These paranormal romantic vampires tend to be extensions of Mills & Boon type heroes and heroines – square jawed, sensitive, rakish, seductive and so on. Not like ‘real’ vampires at all.
Some time back I read that true vampires in the mould of Vlad The Impaler and other ‘families’ in certain parts of Eastern Europe where the vampire myths originated were actually suffering from a form of congenital haemophilia – which would explain a lot if true.
Today’s fictional vampire has become an iconic stereotype, albeit a hugely successful one as series such as ‘Twilight’ proves beyond a shadow of a doubt. But, are publishers becoming disenchanted with the fangs and the undead? If not, just what is the attraction? Have there ever been any disgustingly ugly, dissolute, savage and brutal vampire heroes and heroines in popular fiction?
Or are the undead only seductively attractive because they perform an esoteric form of rape – sucking the life blood in an agony of pleasurable excitement.
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Geez, David, I hope that the vampire interest holds since I'm getting ready to publish the first of seven books that I've written with a vampire theme 
I didn't mean to start writing about vampires three and a half years ago. Nor did I ever connect vampires and angels, but the stories and the words poured out passionately and with an amazing feeling that I was connected to my heart, my creative soul and to heavenly inspiration. I ended up writing a very different sort of vampire story, one of compassion and reclamation. You asked about the why of vampires. Perhaps there's an interest because of the blood involved. Metaphysical author, Louise Hay, says that blood represents the flow of joy. That's something we would all like to indulge in, lots of joy. Perhaps, people like the idea of vicariously getting a 'taste' of it through reading about vampires. Just a thought! http://www.ssbazinet.com/
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