title: Blood Lust: Conversations With Real Vampires
author:  Carol Page 
description: A survey of honest-to-goodness human bloodsuckers that manages to buffer sensationalism with sympathy. Through historical research, anecdotes, and interviews, free- lance journalist Page (Cosmopolitan, Omni, etc.) celebrates ``the decade of the vampire'' and the impact of the vampire image on popular culture from cereal shapes, novels, movies, and fashions to rock music, pornography, and political cartoons. While admitting that the vampire mystique is ``about sex and power,'' she tries to debunk the myth by portraying her subjects as needy and lonely souls whose craving for blood or obsession with those who crave it are not much different from such other emotional maladies as manic- depression or eating disorders. Among her subjects: a gay vampire who ``drinks other people's blood to get to know and understand them better''; a vampire hunter who claims to be a distant grandson of Lord Byron; and a young man convicted of murdering a woman whom he perceived to be his blood-sucking grandmother. Without getting too mired in theories or details, Page also discusses African blood-drinking rituals, a London ``Dracula Society'' that stages a ``Hunt-A-Vampire Weekend,'' the influence of the 60's soap opera Dark Shadows, and a Fox-TV vampire special in which facts apparently were egregiously fudged. She also draws a hilarious comparison between Vlad Tepes--the infamous Romanian prince on whom Bram Stoker's Dracula is supposedly based--and Romania's toppled dictator Ceausescu. Avoiding the lurid gush of Norine Dresser's American Vampires (1989), Page entertains, informs, and even inspires the cause for ``Vampire's Rights'' without draining too much out of us. -- <i>Copyright 1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.</i>
zlib_text: Decatur the Vampire
  Amarinda Jones
   
  A vampire watches Marduk’s every move. Decatur wants her. He needs her, and not just because
  a madman decrees it. In the three hundred and fifty years he has walked the planet, no woman has ever
  affected him like Marduk. The lust Decatur feels grips him—he’s ready to take her, possess her, body
  and soul.
  Marduk’s not sure what’s going on. A dream lover takes her in a way that leaves her gasping and
  crying out for more. And then there’s the vampire. Who is he? What does he want from her and why
  can’t she say no to the sinfully sexual pleasure he offers? Overcoming the odds against them for a
  love that burns like fire is her one desire.
  
  An Ellora’s Cave Romantica Publication
  www.ellorascave.com
  Decatur the Vampire
  ISBN 9781419924705
  ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
  Decatur the Vampire © Copyright 2009 Amarinda Jones
  Edited by Helen Woodall
  Cover art by Syneca
  Electronic book publication December 2009
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