Vampires

In 1988 Paul Barber published Vampires, Burial and Death, which is probably the most extensive and influential of the new scholarship concerning vampires that came out of the late twentieth century. He sought to demystify the vampire all the while not completely discrediting the sources, just explaining what they saw scientifically. He makes the wonderful analogy of Copernicus’ epicycles, a logical and reasonable—albeit wrong- way of explaining a natural phenomenon. Barber goes to great length…

Vampire Squid Very Strange Squid Species Of all the different varieties of squid, the Vampire Squid is a very strange squid species that makes its travel far below the waters nearly a half-mile down near the bottom of the ocean. Even though by its name you would think it sucks blood, the vampire squid actually just eats zooplankton, and is actually part of the animals in the Cephalopoda Class (animaldiversity.org/accounts/Cephalopoda), which means it has a lot in common with some of the oldest…

I just watched Abraham Lincoln The Vampire Hunter. I think that Abraham Lincoln could have actually been a vampire slayer. The reason I think this is because some of the facts in the movie is true. I am going to state real reasons as to why I believe that Abraham Lincoln was a vampire slayer. The first reason I believe that the facts about this movie could be true is because Abraham's son actually died. Yes, they could have looked up that Abraham's son died, but they could have covered up…

Zombies… Vampires… Whose side are you on? For centuries we have been entertained by these superficial beings; Folklores, books, movies, and the family next door. Being a child of the 80’s and 90’s, growing up it was only the vampires lurking in the darkness of our televisions, books, and imaginations. Zombies must of have been buried deep in the ground, digging their way out, an idea and book at a time. As expressed by del Toro and Hogan, vampires have been our favorite night crawler for…

Vampire Ever since reading Twilight by Stephanie Meyers, my slight obsession with vampires began. Reading the Twilight books was only the beginning as my infatuation with vampires grew as I continued to immerse myself in books that catered to individuals who enjoy reading about these blood-sucking creatures. Everything vampire was all I wanted to expose myself to for a while, from the Blade movies to the Morganville Vampire series, I could not get enough of learning about the different way…

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…

myth of Vampires has been around for almost two hundred years. The origin of vampires is still unknown, but it is dated back in Translyvania, Romania. One myth of a vampire is the drinking of blood. It is said that blood with sustain vampire’s undead existence. Vampires came about because of the rare disease called Porphyria, which caused the lowering of hemoglobin levels in blood. As a result, many medieval people who had this disease practiced drinking fresh blood. Many other myths of vampires…

that Werewolves are way better vampires. For example, did you know that once a werewolf reaches maturity, their aging stops and they enter a state of virtual immortality in which they are free from physical old age and have an infinite lifespan? To prove how I know that werewolves are way better than vampires is because, werewolves travel in packs, while vampires travel alone. They say that if you mess with a wolf, you'll get the pack. This means that if a vampire tries to attack a werewolf,…

Two of the most famous are Vampires and Werewolves. In the stories told of them they are almost always natural enemies. Fighting to the death over who knows what. Money? Power? Kristen Stewart? They’re alike in a lot of ways, but also different. Werewolves were thought to have originated in Europe, but a lot of the original stories came from Native Americans. The origination of vampirism did however originate from Europe. People use to think that individuals were vampires because of the body’s…

major changes that has been seen are the changes in vampires. The classic vampire novel Dracula by Bram Stoker has differences between the vampires when compared to Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice. Now comparing to classics like those to a modern day book series Vampire Kisses by Ellen Schreiber the way vampires are now seen has shifted in a completely opposite way than how they were viewed in the classics. In the modern day era of vampire, literature has evolved into something more…