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I remember the first vampire novel I ever read. It wasn't a gothic novel classic replete with all the undertones of Lord Byron or Bram Stoker running rampant through it, it was more one of those short story blips one encounters while flipping through a collection of tales on the supernatural. Just one more piece of prose by an unknown author. Yet for all its obscurity, as far as popularity in the realm of the literary, I remember being instantly entranced by this creature called the "vampire."

I didn't know what it was exactly. It seemed like this creature, this myth, this legend, was the perfect amalgamation of seduction, lust and terror. I remember having this feeling in the pit of my stomach the first time I read about a vampire "taking his kill." It wasn't a feeling of revulsion, not even fear, although I admit the sensation was tinted with a color of that emotion. More so, I believe the feeling was an unbidden thrill. Here was this creature, this sentient copy of a man that, by all accounts, wasn't a man, commiting what most "established societies" would consider to be the most outrageous of taboos; and yet somehow, for the vampire, it wasn't outrageous at all. I mean from the perspective of the reader at least. It only seemed to further the allure of the contradiction of a being rooted in the physical world and yet who was still apart from it at the same time.



After my first "taste" of that discovery, I kept reading everything I could find on the subject. Fictions, legends, real-life accounts; anything that even briefly touched on the topic. It became something of an obsesssion to know more.

Through it all I can't help but recall that time worn adage of "curiosity killing the cat."

But then again, "Satisfaction brought him back" neh?



So it's that same relentless pursuit of knowledge that brings me to such networks and communities as this one, to reach out and possibly connect with others who harbor the same latent fascination. I don't anticipate being a contributor of information as much as one who prefers to hear all that others have to say in respect to the subject instead. The idea of silence being the conductor of receptivity, I suppose.

It's a personal quest, nothing more than that. I have a tendency to ask impossible questions, the kind of one sided zen koans that don't necessarily have answers. But whether or not I do recieve any answers, I don't think my fascination will wane.

Be it just a product of pop culture or an insistent relic of history's mythology, the vampire remains to be, for me at least, one more small piece of the world's wonders that holds me in thrall...

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Blackheresy
09:58 May 15 2009

You write well. I hope you find what you seek.

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