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>
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  About Broken Promise
  While Nial, Winter and Sebastian are on their honeymoon, Nial relates the story of how he once lied
  and broke his promise. In his own words, Nial describes the horrors of war, and the tangled ideals of
  loyalty, while revealing the conflict he feels over the long existence of a vampire and the much
  shorter but sweeter life of humans – especially one of his most favourite humans, Sebastian.
  A short story filled with anger, remorse...and love.
  WARNING: This romance contains two hot, sexy alpha heroes. There is explicit and frank sexual
  language. It includes a single heart-stopping sexual scene between the aforementioned sexy
  heroes. Don't proceed beyond this point if hot love scenes offend you.
  No vampires were harmed in the making of this story.
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  This is a Blood Drops book. Blood Drops are short and novella length stories featuing the characters
  and situations in the Blood Stone series. Droplet sized morsels for your reading pleasure.
  The Blood Stone series:
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