Vampires again??? ^_^
Creeper, I know what you're saying, but here's where I run into a problem with the lovely living dead.
Okay, one of my first novel attemps was to right the best vampire book I could possibly right. How can anyone go wrong? Right, but at fifteen, I was already so sick of vampires, that I couldn't do it. What I was trying to do was make them both pretty and SCARY, because I like the beauty thing, but that almost makes audiences less able to take them serious.
I mean, if some beautiful goth dude came up to me and was like, "I'm a vampire, wanna fuck"....I'd have to laugh (and wonder what he was on). And there are a lot of people who'd be like, "Sure," just for the thrill of it all. I'd want some proof
So, is there a way, since we know they're pretty, to make really scary again? For instance, you probably know this, but John Polidori's story, "La Vampyre," was actually the Byronic beauty that we all know and love, and mean as shit vampire. Lord Ruthven, was actually, Stoker's main charcter inspiration. Dracula the name, and location, were really the only major points he borrowed from Tsepse. (Wrote a big a big thesis on that.)
But Dracula and Ruthven scared the shit out of people in the nineteenth AND twentieth century. Why are we not fightened any more?
And if you put two and two together, Lord Byron was the inspiration behind them all (even Varney). So the beauty is not new. So where did the scarey go?
Oh, so my favorite genre as far as something scary is zombies. So if you hand me a HOT vampire dude in a castle full of zombies...you got me. (For the love all things holy, do not say Castlevania!):D
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