[HPforGrownups] Vampire Info--rather long

Robert Carnegie robertc at redjac.fsnet.co.uk
Wed Jun 6 21:21:24 UTC 2001


No: HPFGUIDX 20309

06/06/01 01:24:40, "Kelley" <SKTHOMPSON_1 at msn.com> quoted:

>Vampires today, as they are often portrayed in modern day literature, 
>are much different than the vampires of old...we have 
>seen in the last twenty years a trend toward a conscientious vampire 
>who is *tormented by his/her own humanity*. 

Written after Ann Rice and before _Buffy the Vampire Slayer_? ;-)

>[In modern fiction] there are also psychic or 
>spiritual vampires who draw the life energy of their victims and 
>sometimes, the very soul.

These ones surely sound more like incubus / succubus / Dementor?

Robert Carnegie
Meretricious!






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