What are your thoughts about vampire stories?
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Re: What are your thoughts about vampire stories?
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Mune wrote:Vampires are one factor of many that will be used again and again. I see it as another color on a writer's palette. You have war, murder, vampires, witches, love triangles, government conspiracies, shape shifters, murderers, dragons, animals, and on and on. The stickler is how you use the color.
I love a good vampire book. My first was Bram Stoker's Dracula followed by Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles. I have read the Twilight series, the Marked series, Blue Bloods, Vampire Academy, Anita Blake series, the Shadow Hunter series, the Dark Hunter series, and on and on. Stand-alones and series, YA and adult, romance and horror. My favorite are the books that are either highly traditional and based on old mythology or something with a modern twist. I really enjoy anything that explains vampirism in scientific terms (Shadow of the Night).
If done right, and not copying a storyline from the plethora of vampire books on the market, a vampire story is just as good as any other story with the components I enjoy.
Great vampire stories are always great.
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I have also read all the books in the Vampire of Athens Series by Eva Pohler and i did not stop until i have read them all.The vampire topics make an intriguing plot.
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Vampire in the computer is an obscure book that I believe couldn't even be published on its own. (see amazon and other outlets). But it was creepy as heck.
Buffy is of course much loved for many reasons.
The many versions of dracula also usually are compelling.
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Twilight (obviously), people got really snarky about the sparkly vampires, but I thought it was a great way of dealing with the sunlight.
The Vampire Chronicles, ahhh my high school obsession. I fancied myself so cool and alternative for loving these books. Anne Rice was absolutely brilliant at writing an intricate history of the Vampire race.
I read the Night Prince series last year and I have to say, they're one of my new favourite series where vampires are concerned.
But number one for me? THE BEST Vampire lore I've ever encountered? J.R. Ward. Oh my word that woman had me obsessed with her books for around two months straight. I was reading every single day, I couldn't put them down. There are different rules for male and female vampires and it has some of the most original lore I've ever read for Vamps.
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I am scared of vampires. I am scared of exposure to blood mostly. But then I won't say that forever. Life takes you through various phases, and one has to be ready to face whatever the life brings uphsimone wrote:Nightlord: Sunset has taken a new look and twist on vampires.
What are your thoughts about vampire stories? Are they old and redundant? Or are there other angles that authors can take these timeless creatures?
Have you read vampire book(s) that you thought of as unique and/or refreshing? Can you share?
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