The Vampire Diaries

His intellect led him to explore many different subjects, and the one that fascinated him the most being vampires. Stoker spent a considerable amount of time with Henry Irving’s theater company after he became good friends with Irving himself. Stoker attended multiple late night dining events that supposedly inspired him to create the eerie mood present in Dracula…

A Nightmare on Elm Street questions the existence of a rare psychological affiliation that causes unexplained nocturnal deaths happening in seemingly healthy young adults and whether or not it is linked to a post-traumatic tension in their past that must have built fear in them. The idea behind this movie was the enigmatic deaths of healthy refugees in 1981 just three years earlier to the production of the first Elm Street film. As newspapers looked into the causes of the mysterious deaths the…

finds out that he and his family are vampires, but she does not care and keep the relationship a secret. Near the end of the book, Edwart and Belle meet a guy named Jim and he feels attracted to Belle. Edwart and his family try to get her away from James but he bites her so she can turn to a vampire; Edwart takes her to the hospital. Fortunately, she did not turned into a vampire because of Edwart’s help. Belle begs him to bite her so that they can be vampires and be together but he refuses. The…

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academy. The Academy is filled with different kinds of vampires, such as Strigois. Strigois are vampires who become evil by draining a victim’s blood, causing them to have an extraneous amount of strength. These vampires have the patience of no saint and the temper of a ticking bomb. They live underground, where they are hidden from sunlight and hunters – also known as guardians. Guardians are determined and motivated to exterminate all vampires. They train day and night, practicing a variety of…

well as in the film adaptation of Hammer Films Production Dracula (1958), in which Christopher Lee interprets the role of the Count as an aristocratic attractive vampire. In this way, writers and directors of the twentieth century created vampires that made the audience feel more sympathetic towards them than to those creatures of the folklore and the previous literature. In what concerns to literature, there have been many different representations of the vampiric figure. From the beginning of…

Lure of the Dead by Joseph Delaney is a fantasy story set all across the County but mainly in the small village of Todmorden. The sleepy village of Todmorden as you will soon figure out, has a very dark secret. The main characters are Thomas Ward and John Gregory. Thomas Ward is a seventh son of a seventh son which gives him the ability to see and hear the spirits of the dead and other creatures of the dark. Tom is an apprentice of four years to John Gregory, the County Spook. The Spooks jobs is…

The last part of City of bones ended on a good note. Everything is returned back to the normal world. This is my different ending for the book, from the place where Valentine has just taken the Mortal Cup. - In an instant, Valentine takes the Mortal Cup and an unconscious Hodge away. From the distance, a wolf’s howl sounds. “What was that?” Clary said. “A werewolf”. Suddenly, a six footed werewolf jumps down from the top of the Institute, and attacks Jace. “Jace!” Thrashing and battling, the…

In Bram Stoker’s novel, Dracula, very few people knew that the story’s main character was based on Vlad III. Despite being different people, they both lived in the same region. Vlad III was born in Sighisoara, a Transylvanian city, in 1431. The house where Vlad was born in is still built and can be visited. He grew up in Tirgoviste and was raised by his mom, Princess Cneajna. She made sure that Vlad and his brothers went to Church and received communion from the monks. Vlad’s father made sure…

In all the vampire lore that we have read two major factors determine a characters worth: the publishing date of the piece and gender. Gender plays an immensely important role, especially when women become involved. In early tales of the vampire women did struggle a little, but had more utility than women in later stories. These four stories exemplify this transition: Lilith, Philostratus, Christabel, and Varney the Vampire. The female gender in vampire lore, when compared to their male…