FROM THE CHRISTIAN HOLY BIBLE Revelation 16:6for they have shed the blood of your saints and prophets, and you have given them blood to drink as they deserve.” Revelation 17:6I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints, the blood of those who bore testimony to Jesus. Leviticus 17:11For the life … Read more

Ashley, Leonard, R.N., The Complete Book of Vampires. Barricade Books, NY. 1998. Auerbach, Nina. Our Vampires, Ourselves. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. Barber, Paul. Vampires, Burial and Death, Folklore and Reality. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1988. Belford, Barbara. Bram Stoker and the Man Who Was Dracula. Da Capo Press, Cambridge, MA, 2002. … Read more

Silver :Sebastian, thank you for meeting with me this eve :o) FatherTodd: it is my pleasure and honor. Silver : firstly, just give us a brief introduction on yourself for starters… FatherTodd: oooh I don’t know where to start. Silver : :o) anywhere you like :o) FatherTodd: let’s see. Well I grew up just like … Read more

When the image of the vampire is presented to us, we are filled– even if secretly or subconsciously– with longing. The three most desirable traits of the vampire are his power, sexuality and immortality. In this essay we will be looking at the immortality of the vampire. While, on the surface, immortality looks like a … Read more

There are essentially three roles of women in the vampire world. Women may be victims or vampires themselves. The third level of attachment to the vampire world (VW) is an outside attachment, and that belongs to the women who are mere observers, such as anyone who reads a vampire book and is drawn to it. … Read more

by Montague Summers London, K. Paul Trench, Trubner [1928] New York, E.P. Dutton & Co. [1929]     IN all the darkest pages of the malign supernatural there is no more terrible tradition than that of the Vampire, a pariah even among demons. Foul are his ravages; gruesome and seemingly barbaric are the ancient and … Read more

by Arthur Conan Doyle, 1924 Promptly at ten o’clock next morning Ferguson strode into our room. I had remembered him as a long, slab-sided man with loose limbs and a fine turn of speed which had carried him round many an opposing back. There is surely nothing in life more painful than to meet the … Read more

from “Bulgarian Superstitions,” Twelve Years’ Study of the Eastern Question in Bulgaria London: Chapman and Hall, 1877 pp. 29-33 and 52-53 pg. 29 By far the most curious superstition in Bulgaria is that of the Vampire, * a tradition which is common to all countries of Slavonic origin, but is now to be found in … Read more