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Melissa Waldrup-Old

About What Lies Here | Vampires | Ghosts | Halloween | Horror Movies | The Darkest Corners

As you can see from the imbalance of vampire links, I have a little bit of a vampire obsession.  No, I'm not some sort of vampire wanna-be.  Of course I would have to think twice before turning down immortality if it were offered to me, but who wouldn't?  I am, however, versed in research on the subject.  There are generally three aspects of the vampire phenomenon:  1) Fictional vampires and harmless role-play 2) A higher level of consuming role-play basically known as 'vampire lifestyle' 3) Those actually afflicted with a vampiric condition (those known as 'real' vampires), either manifesting that as physical or psychic/emotional/energy vampirism.

After that are a couple links to some good ghost story sites.  I have one ghost in particular who has given me some personal experiences, hence my belief and interest in the subject.

Next are some links pertaining to one of my most favorite holidays, Halloween (or Samhain, if it makes you more comfortable).  I place it here for many reasons.  Commonly mistaken in America as just being a child's holiday, Halloween actually has Pagan roots.  It is the final of the three harvests, and the darkest Sabbat of the year.  Halloween is the one time of year that all of us actively recognize and even celebrate the darker, more reflective parts of our human selves.  It is okay to look into that place, accept it, and make peace with it.  For without the darkness, there can be no light.

Following that are my favorite movies limited to a darker genre.  Some are pure horror, some are not.

Last are the blackest links you will find on this page.  They are the purest forms of the darkest corners of the soul.  Lust, despair, the macabre.

VAMPIRE:  THE MASQUERADE
» White Wolf - Creators of the game
» The Camarilla - White Wolf's official fan club
» White Wolf Dark Spiral - Over 500 officially sanctioned White Wolf fan sites
» TheKindred.com - Offers free WoD supplements, downloads, webhosting (for games) and email
» Sanguinus Curae - Like TheKindred.com, but more of a resource site centered on V:tM
» Le Salon de la Rose - A celebration of the artistic indulgence that is Toreador
» Ventrue.com - Web center for clan Ventrue

VAMPIRES IN LITERATURE
» L.J. Smith's The Vampire Diaries
» Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles

VAMPIRES IN THE MEDIA
» Angel
» Blade
» Buffy the Vampire Slayer
» Forever Knight
» Kindred:  The Embraced
» Underworld

VAMPIRES IN COMICS
» Crimson

VAMPIRES ON THE WEB
» Nite World - Dedicated to all things vampyric
» Sanguinarius.org - A support and reference site for real vampires
» Vampires.com - Vampire, darkness and gothic...everything.

» Ghost Stories Online - True story submissions
» The Shadowlands' Ghosts & Hauntings Page - Over 6,400 true ghost stories and other links

» The History of Halloween - An extensive background from The History Channel
» Halloween.com - Halloween on the web
» Halloween-Radio.com - Streaming internet Halloween radio, courtesy of Live365
» Halloween Online - The internet's largest Halloween resource
» Haunted America - A guide to haunted houses and other Halloween events around the U.S.
» Holidays.net - Halloween section
» The Halloween Network - A Halloween internet link resource

» A Nightmare On Elm Street
» Fight Club
» Halloween
» Night Of The Living Dead
» Psycho
» The Blair Witch Project
» The Crow
» The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

» Darkness.com - Writings that explore and embrace the darkest urges within us
» Darksites.com - Internet link resource spanning the mono-chromatic sprectrum.
» Faces Of Death - Everyone's favorite shockumentaries of death
» Noir Leather - Think 'Hot Topic' with rated 'R' apparel and shows
» Rotten.com - For those of us with morbid curiosity