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Every once in awhile I post a picture of all thing that are vampire in my house. Well, here it is, taken 10-15-08.Here's the first! [link]
Here's my second picture: [link]
Boy, my collection has grown...O_O
Books
The Vampire Companion by Katherine Ramslan.
Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice.
The Vampires chronicles, with books Interview, The Vampire Lestat and The Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice.
The Tale of the Body Thief by Anne Rice.
Vittorio the Vampire by Anne Rice.
Pandora by Anne Rice.
The Vampire Armand by Anne Rice.
The Vampire Hunter D series 1-9 by Hideyuki Kikuchi.
Blood Thirst, a collection of short stories edited by Leonard Wolf.
100 Vicious Little Vampire Stories by assorted authors.
The Mammoth Book of Vampires edited by Stephen Jones, written by assorted authors.
Van Helsing, the novel, written by Kevin Ryan.
Vampyre: The Terrifying Lost Journal of Dr. Cornelius Van Helsing, a pop-up book by Mary-Jane Knight. *seen open with blood fan at upper left corner*
Bram Stoker The Esstianal Dracula by Bram Stoker, annoted and edited by Leonard Wolf.
Wadpole's The Castle of Otranto, Beckford's Vathek and Polidori's The Vampyre edited by E. F. Bleiler.
Bloodline and Bloodline: Reckoning by Kate Cary.
The Society of S by Susan Hubbard.
Twilight by Stephine Meyer.
Vampires, Wine, and Roses, short stories by assorted historical authors, edited by John Richard Stephens.
The Vampire by *the boring* Montague Summers.
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Vampire *coffee table guide book* by Manuela Dunn Masceth.
The Bloody Red Baron by Kim Newman.
The Ultimate Dracula *short stories* edited by Leonard Wolf.
A Dream of Dracula by Leonard Wolf
Baltimore, or The Steadfast Tin Soldier by Mike Mignola.
Dracula: Prince of Many Faces by Radu R. Florescu and Raymond R. McNally.
Dracula by Bram Stoker. *my orignal copy that I first read the book! It's also my dad's copy from college, so it's currently yellowed and falling apart.
DVDs
Van Helsing
Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust
Dracula *a collection of five vampire films*
The Bela Lugosi Collection
BBC's Count Dracula
Dracula 1979
Jess Franco's Count Dracula
50 Horror Classics *includes Atom Age Vampire, the Vampire Bat, and Nosferatu just to name a few.*
Trinity Blood Box set
VHS
Ankle Biters
Dracula 2000
Hollywood Vampyre
Razor Blade Smile
A Return to Salem's Lot
Vampire Hunter D
Bram Stoker's Dracula
American Vampire
Laser Discs
Bram Stoker's Dracula Special Collector's Edition
Kiss of the Vampire
Son of Dracula
Comic Books
Hellboy Two: Wake the Devil by Mike Mignola.
four Vampire Princess Miyu 90's comic books
Vampire Hunter D vol. 1. and 2. adapted by Saiko Takaki.
Misc.
Y&T Down for the Count record. *the thing with Dracula sucking the blood from Metropolis robot's neck.*
Dracula cliff notes.
Postcard of The Nightmare.
My Dell laptop.
Things I forgot to put in.
Bat lollipop.
Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin DS Lite video game.
^_^
Thoughts on my collection so far...
The Van Helsing stuff, shich is the shiny DVD and *not too great* novel will always be in my heart. that movie got me intereted in vampires in the first place!
Dracula: Prince of Many Faces was the book that taught me about the REAL Dracula of legend and actual history. I recommend that book if you're new to the world of vampires.
Why do I have Twilight? Because everybody was reading it, and I had to find ot, wtf it was. I was dissapointed in teh writing, and how it has spawned a whole generation of new vampire literature. Unlike the Rician vampire-style tales of the 80s and 90's, unlike the world of vampire erotic novels that reached their peak in the 90's, unlike the delving world of Dracula writing in the 70's till 80's, the 2000's have spawned the vamp lit. style of: emo-vampires-involved-with-Mary Sues-dealing-with-teen-life-of-suburbia. Vampirism is now just a template to add on a character in the book so it would sell more.
The VHD series still blows me away. It's very original, and I'm glad it's being written for us English-speakers. The manga too is very nice.
The Anne Rice stories for me were different, but they certainly are very intelligent written. After the four of the Chronicals, I got bored with them so I never finished The vampire Armand, Vittorio the Vampire and Pandora. It's very good writing but I was at the phase when I discovered Hellsing so sometime when I settle down I will read them again. The Rice stories are VERY GOOD vampire literature.
the collection of short story books here were bought last year at my trip to Chicago in February. They are all old, either printed in the 70's, 80's or early 90's. they have that certain nostalgic smell, and when I read them that was what was helping me write the rest of my van Helsing fanfics. I will cry if they are ever destroyed. They are little bundles of joy.
A Dream of Dracula by the famous Dracula historian Leonard Wolf provides a study of the origins of the vampire craze...written in the 70's. So, it's a bit outdated but because it IS old, it has more in-depth to the past of vampirism in the media. Even before Rice's stories!
Most of the VHS tapes I haven't watched save for Bram's Dracula, the original VHD anime movie and Dracula 2000. The rest are R-rated C-movie trash dad got in builk from ebay, and he will only let me watch them if he's there too. Obviously, the content on some of them involves vampire porn. The VHS *were* under dad's bed where he keeps them.
The Trinity Blood anime series was short lived, but I like it. It too has originality, beautiful music, and stuff like that. I'm not going to spoil anything. But I wish I could get the orignal novels, for the art there and storyline definitely look and are WAY better than the anime. I also wish to look at the Hellsing manga, for I have seen the first crappy anime series and now watching the WAY BETTER Hellsing OVA whenever it's on Youtube.
I have seen all the DVDS here! Jess Franco's Dracula was...lame. the BBC Dracula's Dracula LOOKED AND ACTED LIKE ROXULA. I COULDN 'T BELIEVE MY EYES. SAME COAT, SAME PERSONALITY, SAME FUCKING SMILE, SAME NOSE...everything but the hair. I swear Richard Roxburgh got some of his inspiration from that BBC Dracula special.
Frank Langella's Dracula was so romanitic...oooh lord...
Laserdiscs? Why yes, I have three vampire laserdiscs! Son of Dracula had Lon Chaney Jr. as Dracula...ugh.
The pop-up Vampire book is really cute. It's definitely made for older people, not kids, and I suggest for the die hard vampire enthusiast to get it. It's got fur, bats, vampire guide, and sweet shit like that.
Baltimore is...like.....amazing...wow...awe inspiring...READ IT NOW.
The Bloodline series are sequels to the orignal Bram Stoker novel. Really nice, and most of it seems pretty Stoker-ish, because, after all, they are sequels. Good reads, so read!
and I know there's lot more books and stuff in the picture but I'm too tired of making thoughts about the rest of them,
so there! the End!
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Comments: 125
Sahkmet In reply to ??? [2010-06-01 18:24:09 +0000 UTC]
I was mostly, but now yes, I guess you could say I am. Of the older vampire stuff, not alot of anything related to sparkily ones or 'vampire high school kids are awesome stories!' Blehk.
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twofacetoo In reply to Sahkmet [2010-06-01 18:38:33 +0000 UTC]
yeah, i agree, but I think that the teenage vampires in high school is good, just with no sparkles
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Sahkmet In reply to twofacetoo [2010-06-01 18:42:22 +0000 UTC]
I don't, I never liked school nor do I like connecting vampires with modern, teenage reality.
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twofacetoo In reply to Sahkmet [2010-06-01 18:46:13 +0000 UTC]
well, hey, if I ever see a sparklepire im doing this
"Hi, I'm Edward Culle-"
"SPARKLE BITCH!!!"
*GUNSHOT*
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silverhowler999 In reply to ??? [2010-05-31 20:49:49 +0000 UTC]
read the House of Night stuff yet?
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Sahkmet In reply to silverhowler999 [2010-05-31 20:53:20 +0000 UTC]
Nope. What is that about?
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silverhowler999 In reply to Sahkmet [2010-06-01 12:09:37 +0000 UTC]
some high school for vampires... it sounds bad, but its really not
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Sahkmet In reply to silverhowler999 [2010-06-01 12:32:22 +0000 UTC]
I have no need to fantasize vampires involved in a high school/boarding school drama. But thanks for the suggestion.
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OlinemJestem [2010-05-11 19:46:12 +0000 UTC]
Read Necroscope serie by Brian Lumley! :
Nice collection
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Squeaky-fish [2009-12-01 05:03:31 +0000 UTC]
I want your VC stuff, so much envy right now lol.
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BlindHonor86 [2009-12-01 04:04:46 +0000 UTC]
Out of every book and movie you own, if I could be a vampire from one of them, I would pick the twilight vampires. I don't know why so many people hate them, though the sparkle stuff is bullshit. But nearly unbreakable creatures with flawless bodies and superhuman strength that make most other vampires look like pussies....
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Sahkmet In reply to BlindHonor86 [2009-12-01 14:10:11 +0000 UTC]
It's more of the hate from the way the books are. Twilight is actually a different sort of vampire story that doesn't appeal to many because it's romance is how sympathetic and un-cliche a vampire Edward is. Edward does not dominate Bella as a masculine sympathetic evil force...instead he is 'wimpy' and bullshit sparkily and is more like a normal boy, except 'vampirism' has been added as a template to make him more attractive.
Then truthfully it's the writing, which doesn't gear to readers who are used to a very different style, nor who want such-written teenager romance. Dislike turns into hate among the people who are not as reasonable in their dislike. But certainly me, Twilight is not my type of fiction, and I feel distraught at how it has changed the landscape of vampire literature, but this new themes Twilight helped spawn was oging to happen anyways; to keep vampires in the media fresh and sellers every decade the style of vampire characters must change to remain original. Ujnfortunately this decade which is drawing to a close is not my most favorite. I do not like reading teenager-school dramas with teenager vampires, it just doesn't interest me personally.
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BlindHonor86 In reply to Sahkmet [2009-12-01 21:04:43 +0000 UTC]
Well I'm a vampire lover personally and I read the books and I don't like edward at all really. I was much more interested in alice. The reason I like the books is how beautifully they created vampires though. You can't tell me that you wouldn't love that existance?
Out of all the books you've read do you have any recommendations? Any vampire books that you just couldn't ever put down?
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Sahkmet In reply to BlindHonor86 [2009-12-01 21:29:34 +0000 UTC]
Woah woah woah, certainly of course I would love the existence of being a vampire, and do so indeed! Your sentence makes me think that you have been saying one doesn't really like vampire's immortality in any other book, and only Twilight makes it happen? Strange. There are thousands of books all through time, even movies that make vampirism attractive and potent.
Personally I find the Twilight vampires have bad dialogue and bore my interests. The books don't have the right atmosphere that makes it enjoyable for most of the population. You can't really know though unless you've read other vampire books that have different writing and atmospheric styles, along with plots, to compare, which is why the majority of Twilight readers are young women of the mostly popular-average culture. *note I say 'majority' not 'all'* It's how the vampires are treated and how insufferably popular the Twilight saga has become that upsets people. They are not truly beautiful depictions of vampires to all persons. Not to mention the popularity has destroyed the previous decades ideas that the vampire interest is more selective and mysterious.
Recommendations? It mostly depends on your taste, and I don't know if you've read alot of older vampirish works. The staples should be the Vampire Chronicles of Anne Rice reading Interview with the Vampire and then The Vampire Lestat. Next should be Dracula by Bram Stoker.
From there there are many vampire novels, manga, comic books and films that use vampires into different story types. Twilight is just one type, which is previously mentioned '2000's school kid vampires'. Dracula is a 'romantic gothic horror with a sympathetic evil masculine vampire'. Anne Rice's many books were the roots of Twilight, by creating more emotional and good-guy vampires, psychoanylyzing their lives and very lovely artistic works with action and beauty...while still retaining the romantic-fiction style that attracts the most vampire-readers. Anne's books are like more adult mature versions of the Twilight vampires. Dracula is, of course, the first real novel that brought vampires into the media of the 1900's in the first place!
My personal recommendations besides those two would be getting into Vampire Hunter D. If you're more into manga and anime, you really should check out Trinity Blood and Hellsing. Trinity involves the future where vampires and humans are fighting and yet trying to find peace between them; it has just wonderful beautiful artwork. Hellsing is extremely violent with lots of guns, vampire Nazi's and gore but excellent writing. Still I like it...>_> hehe.
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Murphy2012 In reply to ??? [2009-08-12 00:21:40 +0000 UTC]
With the exception of Twilight, pretty cool collection.
Here are some vampire movies I recommend: Fright Night, Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat, Subspecies, Vampire's Kiss (Not really a vampire movie though, but still good).
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Sahkmet In reply to Murphy2012 [2009-08-12 00:26:00 +0000 UTC]
I read it before the craze was fully rampant. Even then I thought it was awful.
Mmm pretty nice a few of them, I'll check them out when I can.
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viral-reject [2009-07-25 06:46:13 +0000 UTC]
im gonna add another comment since i just remembered something! A new vampire movie called daybreakers is coming! look it up on youtube IT LOOKS KILLER!
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viral-reject In reply to ??? [2009-07-25 06:41:15 +0000 UTC]
awesome collection... all except twilight, stephenie meyer made vampires pussies
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Sahkmet In reply to viral-reject [2009-07-27 03:05:59 +0000 UTC]
Indeed. But, it's a vampire...ic ish...book so yes, it's there.
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viral-reject In reply to Sahkmet [2009-07-27 21:59:01 +0000 UTC]
Well... the rest of the collection totally cancels out twilight so yeah it is an awesome collection
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Aciv In reply to ??? [2009-06-27 11:41:53 +0000 UTC]
Nice ^^
I'm a lover of vampires too, but as I saw, there are some books, etc, which wasn't translated into hungarian yet. So sad.
But, lucky you. Did you watch/read all of this?
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Sahkmet In reply to Aciv [2009-06-27 12:29:24 +0000 UTC]
Yup, I've read/seen all of this except for some of the VHS tapes. A few are icky/B-movie and my dad has banned me from watching them without his supervision *due to pornographic content*. We got those in a batch of good ones so... we didn't REALLY want them. I guess I'll watch them eventually no matter how cheaply made they are. Especially Ankle Biters, which is about midget vampires. Hilarious.
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hytare In reply to ??? [2009-06-03 06:31:51 +0000 UTC]
you don't have 'Let the right one in'...
is kind of weird...not good, but weird...
have you seen it?
is a movie and a book
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Sahkmet In reply to hytare [2009-06-03 06:34:53 +0000 UTC]
I never heard of it...so then that's why It's not in this collection.
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Sakura2811 In reply to Sahkmet [2009-08-09 01:25:05 +0000 UTC]
It's a Swedish novel and movie. They're making an Americanized version like they always do.
[link]
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DessyRuby In reply to ??? [2009-05-01 00:23:37 +0000 UTC]
you should read the darren shan series!
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Sahkmet In reply to DessyRuby [2009-05-01 00:27:03 +0000 UTC]
....the what? *goes to look it up*
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DessyRuby In reply to Sahkmet [2009-05-01 00:48:34 +0000 UTC]
it's about vampires mainly, goes away from the "normal" vampire. kind of for younger readers, but interesting all the same. called "Cirque du Freak"
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Sahkmet In reply to DessyRuby [2009-05-01 01:20:14 +0000 UTC]
Very interesting, I found his official website...though I think the demon one I glanced at seemed more promising. Though the covers though, that demon one obviously isn't for kids.
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DessyRuby In reply to Sahkmet [2009-05-02 04:10:23 +0000 UTC]
lol
haven't read that one yet, but i plan on it!
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Sahkmet In reply to DessyRuby [2009-05-02 12:26:40 +0000 UTC]
I'm not a younger kid so, I'm looking for something a bit more realistic and darker than kids stuff.
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CatrionaMalfoy In reply to ??? [2009-03-28 03:33:46 +0000 UTC]
I have some you probably haven't thought to get. Sherlock Holmes vrs Dracula, and Sherlock Holmes and the Plague of Dracula. Both pretty good and fun additions to any vampire fans collection. They're out of print, but you can get them online from used book sellers. Also, the manga Hellsing is awesome. Alucard pwns all!
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Sahkmet In reply to CatrionaMalfoy [2009-03-28 04:26:32 +0000 UTC]
I've heard of those, though it takes a bit of money on my part to actually add them to my collection. Along with the Manga.
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CatrionaMalfoy In reply to Sahkmet [2009-03-28 05:15:47 +0000 UTC]
I got them for like 99 cents on amazon.com. Try there.
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Spikeghost In reply to ??? [2009-03-26 20:10:12 +0000 UTC]
you don't have Buffy :'(
lol but still, quite a collection
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Sahkmet In reply to Spikeghost [2009-03-26 20:10:48 +0000 UTC]
Heh I would but I hate Buffy.
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