![]() ![]() ![]() In the excerpt below, Cami Davis meets Reese for the very first time in a local Blood House, or vampire bar, where she is going undercover to investigate a series of murders-and where she soon discovers that she's likely to be on the menu. ![]() Because of that, the vampires in my novels are generally horrific rather than sexy, but there's one exception: Reese, the hero of Sanguinary. As a fan of all things vampire, I wanted to draw on that trend in my own fiction-but also stay true to the historical versions of vampires. These days, of course, hot vampires roam our literary landscape freely. And Lord Ruthven from Polidori's The Vampyre seduces virtually every woman with whom he crosses paths. Carmilla, from Sheridan Le Fanu's 1871 novel, seduces her female victim in scenes of pretty heavy-duty sublimated eroticism. In Bram Stoker's original novel, for example, Dracula has hairy palms (and for some great information about the historical connections between masturbation and hairy palms, check out this excellent article). I realize that maybe not everyone immediately thinks of vampires when Valentine's Day rolls around, but sexy vampires have been with us for quite a while-and long before vampires were openly sexy, they carried a sexual connotation. It's getting close to Valentine's Day, so of course writers' minds turn to thoughts of love, and chocolate, and wine, and hearts, and. ![]()
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