[Jason Abbadon]

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Originally Posted by Crazy Jetty

Glad you enjoy them, but I feel vampires are the most overused and overrated of all.
Though, I'll be honest and admit most of that has to do with pop culture, Twilight, Nightworld, Anne Rice, and douchey little vampire kids who think they're so goth and vampires are so misunderstood blah blah blah, once again all resulting from Anne Rice.

The message of this story is Friends don't let Friends read Anne Rice!

I do feel there needs to be a resurgance of the more terrifying, hidious, and oldschool types of vampires.

The Dreseden Files series of (amazing) books deal with Vamps nicely by splitting them into three distinct "courts"-
Red Court vamps are typical vampires that die in sulight/holy water/ empowered symbols (crosses, etc.) and look like beautiful humans but are secretely hideous human sized bat things inside a "skin". They have super strength and speed but lose it all if they get shot in the guts, as it's all about how much blood is in their bellies. They see humans as cattle and have a royalty caste system with nturally born vamps at the top and turned humans at the bottom.

White Court are the pretty vamps- succubi that drain life force through intimate contact. Sunlight means nothing to them, they're beautiful in a supernatural way and have speed and strength, etc...but they go through their reserve of strength quickly when injured or doing above human physical feats. They kill their sexual partners- it's not Twilight in any way: people are food. Humans cant become White Court vamps- and births are rare.

Black Court vamps are the undead horrors that live in crypts and graves- like zombies with super strength, speed, etc. Many know magic after being in existance for hundreds of years. They're the most dangerous, as they feel no pain and can continue just fine even with massive damage.

Whats cool is that the three Courts hate each other- with the BlackCourt almost wiped out thanks to the White Court having financed and published vampire-slaying guides like Bram Stoker's dracula!

Really, stop whatever the hell you're doing right now and go buy/steal all of the Dresden Files books- it's 6:37 A.M. so you may have to break into a bookstore, but it's worth it.
Get going.