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Vampires Today: The Truth about Modern Vampirism

Vampires Today: The Truth about Modern Vampirism

Laycock, Joseph

Hardcover

Literary CriticismGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0313364729
ISBN13: 9780313364723
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Published: May 14 2009
Pages: 216
Weight: 1.05
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.30
Language: English

This book, about real vampires and the communities they have formed, explores the modern world of vampirism in all its amazing variety.

Long before Dracula, people were fascinated by vampires. The interest has continued in more recent times with Anne Rice's Lestat novels, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the HBO series True Blood, and the immensely popular Twilight. But vampires are not just the stuff of folklore and fiction. Based upon extensive interviews with members of the Atlanta Vampire Alliance and others within vampire communities throughout the United States, this fascinating book looks at the details of real vampire life and the many expressions of vampirism as it now exists.

In Vampires Today: The Truth about Modern Vampirism, Joseph Laycock argues that today's vampires are best understood as an identity group, and that vampirism has caused a profound change in how individuals choose to define themselves. As vampires come out of the coffin, as followers of a religion or lifestyle or as people biologically distinct from other humans, their confrontation with mainstream society will raise questions, as it does here, about how we define normal and what it means to be human.

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