By J. Gordon Melton
Revised, up to date, and enlarged, this giant reference is an alphabetic journey of the psychosexual, macabre global of the blood-sucking undead. Digging deep into the lore, myths, and said realities of vampires and vampire legends from around the globe, many elements are uncovered—historical, literary, mythological, biographical, and well known. From Vlad the Impaler and Barnabas Collins to Dracula and Lestat, this exhaustive consultant furnishes greater than 500 essays, a vampire chronology, and 60 pages of vampire assets. whole with specific illustrations and images, the third version of this well known authority contains a wealth of present occasions, together with the Twilight phenomenon; modern authors of vampire romance; the expansion and improvement of real, self-identified vampire groups; and prominent television indicates from Buffy to True Blood.
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Then in 2003, Leslie E. Banks, writing under her pseudonym L. A. Banks, issued Minion, the first of what became her Vampire Huntress books. The series, built around a young African American vampire hunter named Damali, found an audience among readers of romance novels, and by 2009, a dozen titles had appeared. Banks emerged as the most successful African American vampire author to date. Sources: Brandon, Elizabeth. ” In Mody C. Boatright, Wilson M. Hudson, and Allen Maxwell, eds. The Golden Log.
Once he and Angel resolve their jealousies over Buffy, they become staunch allies. In the end, Angel comes to see that he cannot stop the forces of evil represented by Wolfram & Hart, but he can have a temporary victory by severing the Senior Partners’ hold on Earth. He and his remaining team assassinate the members of the Circle of the Black Thorn, the group through which the Senior Partners work on Earth.
They do not attack and drain their victims, but obtain blood in a variety of legal manners (such as locating a willing donor or a source at a blood bank). In such cases, the consumption of the blood has little to do with any ongoing relationship to the source of the blood. It, like food, is merely consumed. Oftentimes, modern vampires even report getting a psychological or sexual high from drinking blood. Once it is settled that the word “vampire” covers a wide variety of creatures, a second problem arises.
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