Essays on Vampire

In chapter three of his book How to Read Literature Like A Professor Thomas C. Foster explains the essentials of a vampire story. Literal vampirism in tells an older but, attractive male who preys on a young virginal woman. The woman loses her strength, energy, and or life resulting in the continued life of the…

Vampires and Zombies are common in today’s modern world through the use of the media. In this essay, I will be talking about how each of these beings say something about society, how vampires have been portrayed across time and how zombies have been portrayed. By doing this, I will use two references from TV…

But despite its terrifying name and appearance, it’s not a vampire. It doesn’t suck blood. It doesn’t have a “blood funnel” vampire squids eat mostly “marine snow” — a mixture of dead bodies, poop, and snot. The dead bodies are the remains of microscopic algae and animals that live in the waters farther up in…

I outlined these steps for those who are interested in becoming Witches, but just don’t know where to start. You’ll notice I don’t mention anything about covens or groups until the last step. That’s because I strongly believe all Witches should start out as solitaries. Learning about Witchcraft and practicing magick by yourself will teach…

Out of all the fabulous animals in the universe the most common and the most known fabulous animals are lamias and wolfmans. And where there are lamias there are most likely traveling to be wolfmans. So now allow me state you some of the similarities and differences between lamias and wolfmans which you may or…

The darkness breathed in the cavernous grave. The walls of granite that formed their belowground catacombs had served as a shelter and a symbol. They were carved with the antediluvian rites and Torahs that governed their species and glowed now as if alive through the inconstant flickering of a individual torch blaze in the centre…

The Vampire Diaries is a hit supernatural teen drama television series about a seventeen-year-old girl, Elena, who is caught up in a mystical world between two extremely handsome vampire brothers. It’s very comparative to Twilight and Buffy the Vampire Slayer with the typical ‘teenage girl falls in love with a vampire’ story. It first aired…

Victoria finally finds Bella and Edwards location which starts a huge fight, the newborns VS. the Culler’s and werewolves. Edward ends up killing Victoria, the newborns were also defeated. Bella ultimately decides she wants to be with Edward and her love for him is unimaginable, they then decide to get married and soon after Bella…

It’s a familiar theme in myth, fantasy, horror and pulp literature. The immortal and terrible queen who rules in the shadows, whether she literally drinks blood or not. Ereshkigal, the Babylonian Queen of Hell … Persephone in Greek myth … the death-goddess Hel of the Norse legends, and the grim Choosers of the Slain, the…

Negari, black queen of a former Atlantean colony deep in sixteenth-century Africa, is a wildly contradictory figure. I believe it’s not merely because she features in a story that appears to have been written in haste for the 1930s pulp market. A dying priest, described by himself as the last Atlantean, is biased in his…