No Such Thing as Vampires

take on the indie publication market. By the time she was 26, Hocking had written 17 books and published them herself online. She writes young adult fantasy books, some of which have made it onto the New York Times' Bestsellers list. Hocking tackles Vampires to Zombies and everything in between. Some of her more famous work include Watersong quarter, Frostfire, The Hollows, Trylle trilogy, Kanin Chronicles, Frostfire and Ice Kissed. My Blood Approves was the first book series she published. This…

I’m choosing the Food: Vampires clip and using the Labeling theory For an individual to truly believe there are a vampire is a deviant act. This would be a primary deviation because the individual may not see what is wrong with thinking they are a vampires. Labeling from society would say otherwise. When the individuals to whom believe they are vampires, not only dress up, but drink blood of humans, and are get tested for blood disease on a regular bases. Have acknowledge that their life style…

A Vampire: ?I Regret What I Had Done.? Today, vampire is the hottest topic in novels, movies, and dramas around the world. Belief in vampires has existed for thousands of year in many different cultures around the world. In original folklore and mythology, the traditional vampires tend to be inhuman and have no soul. They are truly monstrosities. They feed human?s blood in the midnight and enjoy killing people. Today?s outlook on vampires is more positive. Some modern vampires are very human and…

about how did vampires change through time and how differently were they respresented in different cultures.Story begins with saying that old vampires were totally different than the ones we know today. They were more ugly, scary, dangerous and real. In present vampires are handsome, more powerful and unreal. Theories how vampires started existing starts in one small village in France. One huge family lost one of his members because of some sickness but after his death strange things started to…

answer to it all!” (Skal 336) From the very beginning, vampires were obsessed with human blood. Their craving for blood is a sign of lust and emotions. They develop different emotions when they are surrounded by blood. Sometimes the emotions are good, for example if they smell blood and they are able to taste it. Also, sometimes the emotions are bad, for example if they smell blood but had to resist it. The emotional appeal of horror for vampires is their thirst for blood. The movie Dracula…

Presently, vampires are trendy Halloween costumes, used in horror movies, or just used as good-looking characters. Even so, these creatures were not always seen that way. “Stories of these nocturnal blood-sucking monsters have fascinated and entranced our culture for years and years” (King). Vampires are all the rage. Especially around Halloween, vampires are seen everywhere. They are all over social-media and on the television. Recently, “vampires are becoming more of a fad than scary monsters.…

Summary: In “(Un)safe Sex: Romancing the Vampire,” professional copywriter Karen Backstein, explores the interest of vampire movies in the 21st century and changes made to keep the genre relevant. Backstein believes society and humankind are evolving and rapidly changing, vampires are also evolving so that they can survive and continue to interest people in popular culture. Modern vampires, Backstein notes, work to control their impulses so as not to harm the ‘heroine’, who is strong,…

her neck onto her nightgown. In the article Stoker’s DRACULA by Wayne Hensley, he discuses the omission of the overpowering odor from a vampire has been the reason why vampire narratives have survived. Hensley provides an example of how the smell of the vampire has been omitted or spoken about in a less irritating way to get the audience more interested in vampire narratives. Hensley presented a survey in his article where young American women were presented with various smells in a romantic…

In the beginnings of vampires coming about, they were considered foul, hideous, horrifying creatures; today, they are glorified, beautiful creatures, that always gets the girl, and they are who everyone wants to be. Vampires, no matter how they were created were not originally made to be creatures that people fall in love with but instead made to represent evil or even just the Devil all together. As time has modernized, vampires have strayed away from the horrifying characters that they…

the coffins of every Dracula vampire. “Countess Dracula,” I said and the black marble door opened revealing a fancy room covered in statues and designs on the walls and ceiling. Each coffin had a statue at the head of it of the vampire and on the wall behind the statue great things that he vampire did. In the center there was a fountain of a vampire drinking a woman’s blood. Blood poured out of the tips of the vampire’s wings, the woman’s mouth, the place the vampire was biting her, and…