So, not being into TV quite as much as most people, a friend had seen Right Blood Season 1 on HBO and she knew I loved vampires so she told me I had to get this series when it came out on DVD.  Well, I found a fantastic price on a boxed set and I knew that I had to pick it up and look.  I read just the small synopsis on the back and knew that I really wanted to own this DVD set.

Upon getting home I started to watch in amazement.  I really can’t stand the stupid way that some films described vampires, nearly as cartoonish, characters that are not real.  What really drew me into this series and kept me coming back for more were the characters who were real and gritty and not like the monsters that you see in those 1930s werewolf, vampire, Frankenstein movies.  They were modern people living real lives.  Vampires are discriminated against and are openly vampires who drink synthetic blood as their way of fitting in.

The same thoughts that we have about the ancient movie vampires works against these guys too. They do need blood, but don’t have to kill for it. There is tons of synthetic blood available at vampire bars, and socializing too. Some people won’t accept them. Others want to jump their bones. There is plenty of dating between vamps and regular folks. This causes some fascinating complications in life.

The DVD set has extras that are a lot of fun to see. I always delight in those small “making of” tales that you sometimes get. The bonus features have some juicy bits too. The books were just so likable that it was no surprise how excellent the show is. It is the small things that really appealed to me. The girl is a waitress and has to deal with all sorts of customers. She gets visits and advice from fairyesque friends and avoids were-wolves because they are some what grouchy among other things.

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There’s no doubt about it, the verdict is in, and vampires are resoundingly hot at the moment. There’s the whole tweenage cult dedicated to one sparkling vamp called Edward Cullen, and then you’ve got a slew of vamps on network and satellite TV—from the sexy, sultry vamps of Bon Temps on HBO’s Right Blood to the CW’s brooding crew of bright young things on the Vampire Diaries, to the BBC’s Being Human, a show where a vampire cohabitates with a ghost and a werewolf. Here’s a look at the sexiest, bloodsuckers around today.

Kate Beckinsale in the Underworld Series: These movies are action packed and filled with stunning visuals, not the least of which is Ms. Beckinsale, as the smoking hot undead vamp called Selene. In the movie, Beckinsale, who really went on to marry the film’s director, sports a body hugging leather bodysuit.

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It seems only appropriate as “New Moon,” the latest installment in the Twilight movie series continues to bring fans into the theaters that I talk about my wife and our perfect Las Vegas wedding.

We’re both huge fans of the whole vampire genre. I’ve been immersed in it since first reading Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” way back in public school. I considered having prosthetic fangs glued onto my teeth when I went through my rebellious teen phase, but quickly realized that was a path that could only end in schoolyard beatings, so I opted to remain undercover. I met my (future) wife at a goth-themed dance party in college. Bauhaus was playing “Bela Lugosi’s Dead” when I first questioned her out. She was more a right Goth than a vampire fan back then, but she’s switched sides so to speak, after getting hooked on Stephenie Meyers’ “Twilight” book series. When I proposed to her, one of the first things we talked about was having a wedding that reflected our interests and how weddings in Las Vegas always seemed to be the way to go when looking for a ceremony that’s off the beaten track.

When we looked into the possibility of a Los Vegas wedding, we were a small worried that our particular theme might not be something they could deal with. I mean, we’ve all seen the Elvis-themed wedding in Las Vegas, but I wasn’t sure that the undead would be something any of the chapels would be comfortable in handling. Turns out that I was incorrect. When we checked out vivalosvegasweddings.com, we found that they offered packages designed around everything from the Blues Brothers to the Rocky Horror Picture Show, and they had exactly the one we were hoping for: When Vampires Glide.

Most of our friends and family had never been to Nevada before and they were thrilled to be going to Vegas. It’s hard to beat the weather they get there and no one needs to be told about the entertainment that’s available if you’re going to weddings in Los Vegas. The ceremony itself was perfect. The chapel supplied a minister in costume as a vampire, the music was suitably creepy and the package included a pair of female vampires who rose from the grave during the ceremony and flew into the air together! Of course the place was full of tombstones, eerie lighting and loads of fog, so a suitably chilling atmosphere was made. After what we experienced and the comments we received from our guests, I have to say that Los Vegas weddings are the way to go.

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Everyone from teenaged girls to single women to suburban mommies to grandmothers are going crazy over Edward Cullen, the drool-worthy vampire in the wildly well loved new <b>Twilight</b> movie. 

Why are women everywhere lusting over Hollywood’s latest bloodsucker? It isn’t just the fact that the vampire Edward Cullen is played by the uber-yummy Robert Pattinson although that helps.) <b>Twilight</b> author Stephenie Meyer has made the perfect man in Edward: Smart, amusing, handsome, and utterly possessed by the girl he likes. 

<b>Bring On the Terrible Boy Vampires.</b>

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Vampires are a well loved group in our literary and cinematic lore. Vampires seize our imagination, entrance us, and allow us to believe in beings outside of our normal lives. The vampire has changed from a once maligned, often despised and feared, always undesirable being into a loved creature that embodies superhuman power and eternal life.

During the middle ages, vampires were most of the time apparitions. They were the embodiment of a soul not at rest. Normally a vampire would attack or haunt its former family members. To stop these attacks, village folk would exhume the vampire body, stake it through the heart, and decapitate it. Oftentimes the corpse was also incinerated. By staking the corpse it was thought a vampire would be pinned in its coffin and it could not rise again. Cutting off the head was a method to separate the body from the brain. In the worst cases, fire was used to annihilate a vampire corpse. Read the rest of this entry

Heroines always go home with a vegetarian.  But they dream about the terrible guy.  Why is that?  They’re safe with their hearts’ desire but their body’s lust pushes them out of their comfort zone and makes the tale that much more fascinating.

Now, that vegetarian isn’t always a vamp.  Vegetarian = someone who won’t bite our heroine (at least…his bite won’t turn her into a vamp!)  But that terrible boy is always a vamp.  And he always really, really wants to nibble on the heroine.

Two wildly well loved series, Twilight and Right Blood, have this down to a ‘t’!  Bella is our heroine and even tho Edward repeatedly puts her in danger, she never falls for Jacob, the vegetarian.  Sam, Alcide, Quinn…Sookies’ veggie list goes on and on.  But first she’s with vampire Bill and then Eric catches her eye and won’t let go….I can’t wait to find out what Sookie gets into next!

Even The Vampire Diaries follows this “forbidden fruit” tale.  Stefan can’t stay away from Elena and Elena SHOULD fall for Matt, the best friend who has been around forever and is clearly her perfect match….But Stefan and Damon are right there in the way.

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10. Angel from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV series, and later his own spinoff series Angel.

9. Felipe De Castro from the Sookie Stackhouse / Right Blood book and TV series.

8. Lara from the Dresden Files book and TV series.

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Excerpted from an article written for the October issue of the Instant Magick newsletter (http://instantmagick.com).

Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight Series. Vampire: the Masquerade. History channel documentaries about “real vampires.” It seems literary vampires are more well loved than ever, and there are more real vampires walking among us than most “normals” ever realized. They are coming out of the woodwork in greater numbers with every passing year – becoming more vocal on the internet, making TV appearances in documentaries, forming houses, holding conventions, and steadily increasing visibility as a community. The vampire subculture is experiencing a revitalization similar to that which Wiccans and the gay community have experienced in past decades. But who and what exactly are the vampires who walk among us?

Modern day vampires are a form of Otherkin. “Otherkin” is a blanket term for a variety of people including many who feel they have a non-human spirit in a human body. Otherkin include vampires and other vampiric beings; therians, which are were-beings like werewolves and were-leopards; faery-kin; angel-kin; dragon-kin; and many other varieties. Vampires are not to be confused with Goths. “Goth” is an artistic movement encompassing a “dark” aesthetic. Some, but not all, vampires are Goths. Some, but not all, Goths are vampires.

The vampire subculture encompasses many varieties of vampiric beings. The major delineations are: sanguine vampires, who consume life energy by consuming small amounts of blood; psy vampires, who primarily draw on psychic, emotional, or magickal energy; sexual vampires, which include incubi, succubi, and leannan sidhe (an Irish faery version of a vampire, succubus, and muse all in one); and of course, the donors, who are sometimes vampiric themselves, but often suffer from the opposite condition, having an overload of energy that they are constantly trying to siphon off.

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It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to decode the compelling success of Stephanie Meyer’s vampire series, Twilight. If 17 million printed copies and a movie adaptation are any indication of its influence in young adult literature, then Twilight is redefining this genre through giving it an edge like no other.

Twilight may well owe its success to the intriguing and gothic romance between a normal teenager, Bella Swan, and an intoxicatingly charismatic vampire, Edward Cullen. Just like Romeo and Juliet, the tie binding Cullen and Swan are even more strengthened by the obstacles they had to face due to the opposing existence they tread—Swan as a mortal, and Cullen as a vampire, one of the scary creatures of the night known to have roamed the world of the living for centuries.

Vampires and other scary creatures of the night have been a well-known character since the early 1800s. These dark creatures possess an eerie combination of beauty and lethal danger. Both repulsive and attractive, vampires are a borderline between monstrosity and humanity. Capitalizing on these scary creatures’ grim and fascinating characteristics, Stephanie Meyer has made a world like no other—A world where like between a mere mortal and an enticingly perilous scary creature of the night is within the bounds of possibility and reality.

Instead of the stereotypical vampires replicated over and over throughout the years, the book has introduced us to a honestly different set of vampires. Rather than being described as pure evil, we are welcomed into the world of conscience-ridden vampires that could choose to feast on human blood or jeopardize their existence by denying their nature.

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