Mar 09 2009
Literature of Lifeblood
Wowie wow wow wow! My dear…. (ode to Christopher Walken)
Let me just say how much of a shocker it is that my one post about the show “Moonlight” has sparked such interest in my blog!
As always, I’ve been keeping track of the stats here on “Writing and Reading.” I’ve noticed quite a change due to that one post. Why is that?
Do we really like vampires that much? Wow, what would happen when I’d write about TWILIGHT…. A clan of hormonal teenage girls will suddenly attack my blog, rape me, feed on me and then play with my hair while reading Stephenie Meyer to me, their crystalline eyes glowing auburn. Chuck Stake would have a field day 
. Dear God, Stephenie, you’ve cast a spell on the YA world! Be gentle….
Seriously, though, you all know my interests as far as that particular sub-genre (we can call it as such due to the overwhelming array of literature regarding it). Let’s be honest: we’ll call it “vampire literature”. THE CAIN LETTERS is simply that, too. It’s about vampires. We’ve got Anne Rice as well. Bram Stoker is classic. Laurell K. Hamilton makes me blush brighter than Dracula’s bride’s raging barbed clitoris.
All over TV and movie land–”Forever Knight”, “Buffy”, “Angel”, “Blade”, “Underworld”, “True Blood”, etc etc. I seriously could go on and on. They’re everywhere! The infamous Stephen King once tackled them in SALEM’S LOT. They’re ugly sometimes. They’re beautiful sometimes. They’re beasts and beauties at the same time. They’re despairing and delightfully ravaging. They appeal to our human desires–and somehow reach darker and deeper into that which frightens us and makes us feel vulnerable. They are….
VAMPIRES….
I just have to ask…. I really do…. But what is it about them that makes them so unbearably irresistable? They appeal to me simply for their intensity. But I know it’s not the same for everyone. “Moonlight” was one of my favorite shows, for sure. However, I’m positive others liked it for other reasons.
What is it about the ‘vampire’ that charms us? And why do we hunger for more of those stories? The lifeblood in that literature keeps us going with that ever-present urban fantasy, the world of darkness and fierce eyes and fury and passion and romance that gets our blood boiling, bastions of hardened wastelands of flesh pounding, peeling layers and layers of our desires away revealing the center, the core, the essence, the love we have… for…. VAMPIRES.
Since all you readers have literally taken my blog by storm on that particular subject, let’s have a discussion! Fire away. Tell me. Talk to me. What is it about the ‘vampire’ that moves you? Why? Will it ever die down? It seems that the ‘genre’ of the vampire mythology will never die. Not even a stake or garlic or sunlight will silence it. Or maybe it will. Give me your thoughts. I’m interested.
And then after we’re done with the discussion, we’ll have some wild, freakish blood orgy that’ll make Chuck Stake quiver in his blood-soaked boots and make him pass out. Taco Supreme.
