The Vampire
Vam.pire. n. 1. Reanimated corpse believed to leave it's grave at night and suck the blood of the living. 2. a woman who kills her husband.
Vampires. Dark Angels. Children of the Night. For centuries man has been enthralled by the mystery and legend that surround the living dead. In the old world a vampire is beleived to be spawned when their life is taken by another vampire, and can be killed by a wooden stake shoved through the heart, and a simple ring of garlic or a crucifix can drive them away. An old Catholic legend says that those who commit suicide become a vampires. A demented Irishman by the name of Bram Stoker once believed he had the truth when he created Count Dracula. This world of the vampire.. of 'our kind,' is a blurred cacophony of fact and fiction, truth and dreams.
Peasent rumours came about as reasons for understanding the deaths, understanding the corpses that were found with red holes in the sides of their necks. The mythology and the legends are what have kept the intrest in the vampire alive.. so to speak.
Pathway to Darkness: Mythology, legends, anything and everything dealing with vampires.
The AVIA: The Australian Information Association.
Games have been created in hope of correctly imitating the vampire, such as a forum called Vampire: The Masquerade.
The Vampire Archive: Informaion on all aspects of the Masquerade.
Le Salon de La Rose: The Camarilla's most pretentious clan, the Toreador.
And then, Our Kind. The vampires of Anne Rice, who have been the most vibrant vampires known. Beautiful and deadly, Rice has created a rich and sensuous world of decaying old world attitude and biting new-wrold viciousness. The birth of Our Kind was deep in the heart of Egypt, and the legacy has passed then since through the most famous.. and infamous undead.
The Vampire Chronicles: Bloodlines, histories and laws of the Ricean Vampire.
Pallid and beautiful, the vampire is a truth and mystery that has captured the imagination of writers, artists.. and the world that the in which vampire exists is and forever will be Eden, the garden of eternal beauty and youth.
