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Calendar Events / Announcements '16 II / Re: The Old 'Switcher-oo'
« on: October 29, 2016, 08:52:51 PM »
THE RETURN OF THE VAMPIRE is one of my favorite films. Glad you got to enjoy it!
I think the idea of a feud or innate acrimony between vampires and werewolves was made up by the author of the Twilight books. It might have been something that came up in modern pulp vampire and werewolf fiction such as the seemingly interminable books by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro and others. I haven't read any of that, so I don't know.
The pre-Victorian lore about vampires, werewolves, Witches etc. was to say the least rather different from modern media images. You can read books by S. Baring-Gould, the "Reverend" Montague Summers (who was quite a character in his own right), Claude Lecouteux (an excellent modern researcher of old lore) and others, if curious.
Best, G.
I think the idea of a feud or innate acrimony between vampires and werewolves was made up by the author of the Twilight books. It might have been something that came up in modern pulp vampire and werewolf fiction such as the seemingly interminable books by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro and others. I haven't read any of that, so I don't know.
The pre-Victorian lore about vampires, werewolves, Witches etc. was to say the least rather different from modern media images. You can read books by S. Baring-Gould, the "Reverend" Montague Summers (who was quite a character in his own right), Claude Lecouteux (an excellent modern researcher of old lore) and others, if curious.
Best, G.