Book Review: The Passage by Jim Cronin

  “It happened fast. Thirty-two minutes for one world to die,  another to be born.”    First, the unthinkable: a security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a… Read more

Book Review: Bite Me

  “Christopher Moore is a very sick man, in the very best sense of the word.” —Carl Hiaasen The undead rise again in Bite Me, the third book in New York Times bestselling author Christopher Moore’s wonderfully… Read more

Book Review: Blood Oath

  This action-filled debut by scriptwriter Farnsworth reads like a cross between P.N. Elrod's historical vampire adventures and Thomas Greanias's conspiracy thrillers. Nathaniel Cade, the president's vampire, swore to fight on… Read more

Guilty Pleasures- Laura K. Hamilton

Guilty Pleasures by Laurell K. Hamilton GET IT HERE!! The start of a great vampire series! Laurell K Hamilton’s Anita Blake series starts with a thriller and has continued strong with new books appearing each year for the last several… Read more

Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant

A teenager unknowingly breaks a 200-year-old truce between two warring factions of vampires, Vampires who do not harm their victims and Vampaneze who kill whoever they feed on. This film opened to mixed reviews. Although many have said that the… Read more

Daybreakers

In a world 10 years into the future, vampires make up the vast majority of the population with only 5% of the human race remaining. This presents particular challenges as the vampires' food supply – human blood – is dwindling and… Read more

Let the Right One In

  In the movie, Oskar is a 12-year-old outcast who is frequently picked on by his classmates. He dreams of getting his revenge, but he never stands up to the boys. With the arrival of his new next door neighbor, 12-year-old Eli, Oskar may… Read more

The Twilight Saga: New Moon

  In the second installment of Stephenie Meyer's phenomenally successful TWILIGHT series, the romance between mortal and vampire soars to a new level as BELLA SWAN (Kristen Stewart) delves deeper into the mysteries of the… Read more

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  Angelique Armae: Shadows of the Soul

  SHADOWS OF THE SOUL(Book 1 of the Paradisian Chronicles)ISBN: 978-0-9845151-4-1 Available at: Barnes & Noble NOOKAmazon KindleSony Reader Store Publisher: Diversion Books When a Grigori prince and a demon huntress team up to find the antidote to… Read more

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  September vampire DVDs

  September is upon us. The days are getting cooler, shorter, and darker (depending on where you live, of course), so it’s an excellent time to start curling under the covers at home and catching up on vampire entertainment you either missed or loved… Read more

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  True Blood things, Fangland, Vampires Until Dawn

  Vampire Diaries season 1 is out on DVD today, details are here.Vampire Cafe has done the business on the latest True Blood episode here… all the links you can wave a stake at.VC spotted an interview with True Blood’s Pam here.BloodyDisgusting has… Read more

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  Winner Wednesday

  Terry Spear’s winners areTina Folsom and TheBookishSnob Lynda Hilburn’s winner is BeverlyRoxi Romano’s winner is Robin KCongrats… Read more

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  Join Author Wendy Zwaduk on her My Immortal Book Tour

  Why Write Vampire Romance….I have a good friend who, when I mentioned I had an idea for a paranormal story, rolled her eyes and replied, ‘You’ve been bitten by that bug, too?’At the time, I shrugged off the question. I mean, an author should write… Read more

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  T-Shirt Curiousity

  I know it’s a bit of a longshot, but I’m struck by the similarity the following t-shirt design and a certain book on vampires.The inscription reads “On the Origin of Vampires by Means of Unnatural Selection or The Preservation of Favoured Species in… Read more

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  Marty’s Vampire Lecture

  If you’re gonna be in Illinois during October, then make sure you check out “Vampires: The Creatures of the Night”, a slideshow presentation by Martin V. Riccardo.He’s the founder of Vampire Studies and authored Lure of the Vampire, Vampires… Read more

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  30 Days of night interview, Dracula Budkins

  Quiet night… sorry folks.BloodyDisgusting has a chat with Diora Baird on the 30 Days of Night Dark Days film here.BD has a new image from Let Me In here.Monstersandcritics.com takes a look at the latest true blood episode here.Scififantasyfiction… Read more

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  The Importance of Paper Trails

  I’ve received an interesting comment from reader, Jonathan, concerning assumptions raised in my previous post. I’ll address it here, and also discuss the scholarly value of citing other works.Peter Haining’s A Dictionary of Vampires (London: Robert… Read more

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  Contest for Aminah Iman’s new vampire novel, LILLITH: MY GENESIS

  Novelist Aminah Iman has graciously offered to give away a free ebook copy of her new novel, Lillith: My Genesis. Here’s Aminah’s info about her take on the Lilith vampire legend . . . Lillith, the first wife of Adam, was banished from the Garden of… Read more

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