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Good Books have Bite:
The Vampire in Stories and Poems

Vampire. Vampir. Vampyre. Vampyr. Undead. Blood-sucker. Sanguinarian. Lamia. Previously living. Life-challenged. Undead. The names denoting this creature -- these creatures -- continue into every race, every nationality, and every culture. They appear in books, comic, graphic novels, songs, cartoons, televisions shows and movies. So what is the attraction of this enduring, undying, yet constantly changing myth? (And is a vampire a creature of myth?) What kernel of essential need does the figure of the vampire supply? What traits and characteristics remain constant across vampire novels, vampire stories, vampire poems, and vampire films? How do we read them, create them, interpret them, and write about them? Are vampires’ really just humans suffering from dietary restrictions as many current novels seem to imply?

Examine the vampire in novels and what do you find?

  • You find a creature that still retains human form, although dead.

  • It is a creature that has a truly parasitic relationship with humanity, most especially with its own family

  • It drinks the blood of the living to survive -- although sometimes it also eats regular food
  • It sometimes needs to be invited into ones' home

  • It has rigid rules to exist by.

  • It is a creature that continues to have a life (of sorts) without the need of divine (Holy of some sort) intervention

  • It is usually in direct opposition with the ruling theology of whatever culture it "lives" in

  • And in declining numbers, within an increasingly secular world, it is depicted as either inherently evil, or as the product of an evil action. And like all evil, it usually wears an attractive face which helps the victim to forget that a vampire is first, last, and always a predator.

It is the predator which the human lovers usually describe briefly sensing before they become attached to their vampire. They describe the fear as being almost subliminal – something they are, at the back of their minds, aware they should feel. Then they set aside the fear and allow themselves to be taken. They ignore the fact that they could easily wind up deader than the undead vampire. Life being less important than the pleasure (paranormal romance here) they get from the vampire.

This website is dedicated to exploring our ongoing relationship with vampires: things that are almost human, but not quite; almost monsters, but not quite, almost men or women, but not quite. They are malleable, changeable, undying... predators, like us.

Table of Contents



Sweet Goth Blog
Vampire related articles don't always want to be large enough/long enough for a full webpage. Some are best covered in blog. This connects the two...

Free Vampire Story: His Blood is the Life
This month's free vampire story: "His Blood is the Life" questions one of the most dearly held traditions regarding vampires: that they can't enter Churches or handle Holy items.

Censored: Vampires don't Sparkle
The censors are running through the internet with their wands (legal briefs) at the ready, pulling the idea that "vampires" might not "sparkle" from public space.

Submission Vampire Poetry
Submissions of vampire poetry is now being accepted for publication on THIS site. We want to feature four new poems monthly on THIS site.

The Night Hunter by Tanya Wagner
Featuring a predatory vampire, "The Night Hunter" by Tanya Wagner demonstrates the wicked aspects of an attractive immortal being.

Modern Vampire Poems
These are modern vampire poems that are not ephemeral; they discuss eternal life & death, good & evil, hunter & victim, and most important food source & love.

Classic Vampire Poetry
Classic Vampire poetry really hasn't changed all that much over time. Here is the pre-twentieth century poetry.

Free Vampire Short Stories
Free vampire stories don't all have to be full of sex, sex, sex! A little bit is fun, but sometimes a good laugh -- about once a month -- is all a vamp girl needs.

Vintage (Old) Vampire Literature (Stories)
Vintage (old) Vampire literature (Stories) existed before Bram Stoker's genre setting Dracula, The gateway to the stories is here.

Writing Vampire Essays
Writing vampire essays -- or the vampire story can be easy enough, you just need a bit of help in organizing your reading and writing..

Vampire Characteristics (Traits)
Vampire characteristics can be tracked though the stories and poems that featured them.

Children as Vampire, Children as Victim
The history of vampirism written in stories and poems is filled with children victims, and then with the, post-turn, children vampires.

Vampire as Bloodsucking Metaphor
The vampire has been used as a metaphor for respectable people such as landlords and bankers almost since the inception of the character.

Sex and the Vampire
Our vampire literature is filling with Vampire's having sexual relations with the still human. What is is about our society that insists that there be sex in everything?

Porphyria: The Vampire Disease
A scientific and biological powerpoint covering the "Vampire" disease, Porphyria. It was created by a student for a Biology class.

Dracula and Disease in the Victorian Period
Bram Stoker’s Dracula presents an interesting perspective on illness and death in the Victorian period. However, it is also useful to view Stoker’s work in light of Victorian understanding of diseases

Religion and Vampires
Religion and Vampires, oh my. What exactly is it about Holy items that make Vampires turn away? Symbols have power even over the dead.

Evil Vampire
The evil vampire is that of legend, and he has hidden in the dark since the first twilight. It is only in the last fourty years that he has aquired a new face. What makes a vampire evil?

Vampire Festivals, Conventions, and Conferences
Vampires, while by nature solitary creatures, enjoy the occasional gathering with their kindred. Join in, if you dare; new blood is welcome.

Vitality for Vampires: Enlarge your Bite: Improve your Sex un-Life
Vitality! The Top Male Vampire Enhancement Product will Enlarge your Bite: Improve your Sex un-Life! Guaranteed 100% Pure! (cartoon ad)

Crossword Puzzle: Vampires Around the World
Free and Fun advanced vampire crossword puzzle asking for the name of vampires in countries that call the same beings different names.

Vampire Twilight Word Search Puzzle
So you think you know all about the Vampires of Twilight. Well here is a Word Search Puzzle based on the first novel of the series Twilight

Confessions of a Vampire-Book Slut
Who better than a self-confessed vampire-book slut to guide you to the most titillating vampire-books for bedtime pleasure?

Suggested Vampire Series Beyond Twilight
Here are some suggested vampire book series to read beyond the Twilight series.

Supernatural Bookstore - Vampires, Ghosties, Werewolves
The Supernatural Book Store contains ebook study aids and an abridged Varney the Vampire.

Vampire Clothing and Gothic Gifts
Vampire clothing and gothic gifts are perfect for the undead lover in your life (or unlife). Enter here ... if you dare.

Books With Bite Site Banners and Buttons
Here is a selection of simplysupernatural-vampire.com site button and button image links

Victims: Fuck 'em or Suck 'em? (Free Vampire Short Story: May)
Victims: Fuck 'em or Suck 'em is the website's free vampire short story for May. This vampire has to decide if he wants to play with his dinner before dining on her.

About Me & Vampires in Literature
All About Me? I am a college instructor with two specialties that are completely at odds: Vampires, and Grammar.

Euthanasia And Dracula
Euthanasia and Dracula, and other vampires of course, are as closely interrelated as vampires and souls, or vampires and staking. What is euthanasia except the freeing of souls trapped in a dying body

Dracula: Hero or Savage by Diane Huxley
Dracula, the one of History and not of Bram Stoker's novel, was both a hero and a savage - depending upon perspective. This essay examines aspects of both.

Sex and Blood Free Vampire Poem
"Sex and Blood" is the July free vampire poem sponsored by my website. Written by Leslie Ormandy, it is one of the few friendly vampires she has ever written.


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