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This is the 1st edition of this book out of THREE books. There is an updated second and THIRD edition available with the same name . this is the OLDER edition Do you ever wonder where vampires come from? Why women love those hot sexy vampires on television or in books? Why vampires are no longer scary to kids? These and other questions are answered within. Lure of the Vampire is a pop culture reference book that begins with the history and mythology of vampires and ends with interviews of modern living vampires. The author has provided "fun" lists like the Powers of Dracula, Real Live Vampire Murders, Television Shows and African Americans who have played vampires. There are also websites in each section that show the most popular vampire books and even children's shows and books. But, there is a personal twist when it comes to Lure of the Vampire. The author has provided personal essays from national and international vampire authors as well as her own. They range from a personal look at vampires in mythology to the romantic lust filled vampire. There are also interviews with various groups and individuals involved in the vampire community. Lure of the Vampire: A Pop Culture Reference Book of Lists, Websites, and "Very Telling" Personal Essays is a perfect quick to grab reference book for the vampire fan or author. It is concise enough to assist you in finding links to what you are looking for without our being too cumbersome and confusing.
- Sales Rank: #4229034 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Search for the Lure
- Published on: 2011-06-22
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x .40" w x 5.25" l, .42 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 176 pages
Features
- Used Book in Good Condition
About the Author
Bertena Varney spent her collegiate career studying vampires in her history, mythology, sociology, and criminology classes. She would find anyway to include vampires in anything that she did. Her favorites studies were pop culture and mythology. She completed her academic career with a BA and MA in Social Science and Education and an MA in sociology and criminology. She is currently a sociology professor at Southcentral Kentucky Community College in Bowling Green, KY. She is the author of Lure of the Vampire and Lure of the Vampire: Revamped and author and editor of Vampire News: Tasty Bits You Can Sink Your Fangs Into, co contributor of Vampire News: The Not So End Times Edition, and contributor to both The Witching Hour and Sirens Conference Compendium. Her role playing character was used by Elizabeth Loraine in a collaboration on a fiction novella titled, Lillian: A Vampire's Story. She is also the Examiner.com expert on Vampires, True Blood, Comics, Movies, Television and more. She has one college aged son, Tre' Alexander Varney. She currently lives in Bowling Green, KY with her boyfriend Samuel Hinds and her black cat, Luna. She can be found on Facebook here http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bertena-Varney-Author/117922531618827 You can follow her on Twitter @tenavarney
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
jojohn0309
By jojohn0309
Lure of the Vampire by Bertena Varney, MA was a very interesting and informative novella. In her short book she wrote in depth titled chapters ranging from Vampires in History, Vampires in Literature, Vampires in Film, Vampires on TV, Vampires for Children and Vampires in Real Life, just to name a few. She offered special guest interviews with fellow authors and persons to add emphasis to the articles along with plenty of wonderful websites to keep you busy for awhile.
In her Religion section, she explained that Religious beliefs are that the drinking of blood by a vampire is a "sin" and can be proven in the Old Testament. They site such stories as Lilith, Cain and Judas to back up this "sin" they believe. In her Children section, she reminds us that the vampire on Sesame Street have been around a long time. She examined how children are introduced to vampires at an early age with Count Chocolate Cereal, Halloween gummies and costumes; there are many other TV shows (like Count Duckula and My Babysitter Is a Vampire) and books for children that cover the subject matter of vampires. She has included a rather extensive list of movies and TV shows that has involved vampires and has also included a list of all the actors that have played Dracula over the years. She examined the vampire's role on young adults. She believes that vampires provide an outlet for them to experiment, make friends and develop, finding safety, stability and acceptance along the way. This was very interesting and I guess even as an adult, as I read about vampires, I find the same thing. Her section on Recreation discussed the plentiful websites dedicated to vampires, vampire role-playing games and plain old video games.
Her Real Life section is the one that I found particularly interesting. She spoke about the different kinds of vampires and the man that is on the cover of her book. She included an interview with him as well. I had always thought, as a child, that there was only one kind of vampire, the Sanguarians who required the drinking of blood. As I got older and started to research vampires, I found the Paranic/Energy/Psychic vampires that feed off the energy a person emits naturally. Her book explained that in addition to these two kinds of vampires, there is a Tantric/Sexual vampire, a lifestyle vampire that dresses up and is just into all things vampire, and then there is an Elemental vampire. What is an Elemental vampire? I wondered the same thing. She explains it as one that feeds off natural phenomenon like lightening, natural disasters, etc. She educated me and I love to learn new things! She examined the man on the cover, who is known as Vlad the Gothic Magician. He is a living vampire who understands the concept of blood and energy. He is also a Magician and performs regularly but not to children's birthday parties only. He has an older clientele for the most part due to his subject matter. He agreed to be on the cover of her book and the rest was history.
Bertena states that the vampire phenomenon has risen 75% recently and there is a call for anything and everything vampire related. She believes the vampire rage, "Represents what we fear most at that moment" and that's why it's so popular. She cautions that when dealing with vampires, "Not all things are what they appear". She has a wide variety of interests but she always comes back to vampires as her favorite. She started this book as a paper for her Masters course. Since then, after much research, she has turned it into a book worth reading for any vampire and newbie vampire lover. Bertena has big plans for this fall as she will be teaching a vampireologist course. You can reach her at:
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I really enjoyed this book, though that's not surprising as I love vampires. She reiterated some things I already knew, explained some things' origins and practices that I also knew, and educated me on several new aspects of her book as well. She was very thorough and not only told you something but added examples to emphasize her point. The wealth of her knowledge is unparalleled. I usually start a book and put it down to come back to it later. Once I started reading her book, I couldn't put it down and was distressed when I had to do so to perform everyday tasks. Luckily, it was a quick and easy read. It really engulfed me, drew me into the book as I read. I commend her for such a comprehensive and wonderful book. I'm glad I took the time to read it as I was thoroughly entertained.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Bertena's Lure of a Vampire
By jojohn0309
Lure of the Vampire by Bertena Varney, MA was a very interesting and informative novella. In her short book she wrote in depth titled chapters ranging from Vampires in History, Vampires in Literature, Vampires in Film, Vampires on TV, Vampires for Children and Vampires in Real Life, just to name a few. She offered special guest interviews with fellow authors and persons to add emphasis to the articles along with plenty of wonderful websites to keep you busy for awhile.
In her Religion section, she explained that Religious beliefs are that the drinking of blood by a vampire is a "sin" and can be proven in the Old Testament. They site such stories as Lilith, Cain and Judas to back up this "sin" they believe. In her Children section, she reminds us that the vampire on Sesame Street have been around a long time. She examined how children are introduced to vampires at an early age with Count Chocolate Cereal, Halloween gummies and costumes; there are many other TV shows (like Count Duckula and My Babysitter Is a Vampire) and books for children that cover the subject matter of vampires. She has included a rather extensive list of movies and TV shows that has involved vampires and has also included a list of all the actors that have played Dracula over the years. She examined the vampire's role on young adults. She believes that vampires provide an outlet for them to experiment, make friends and develop, finding safety, stability and acceptance along the way. This was very interesting and I guess even as an adult, as I read about vampires, I find the same thing. Her section on Recreation discussed the plentiful websites dedicated to vampires, vampire role-playing games and plain old video games.
Her Real Life section is the one that I found particularly interesting. She spoke about the different kinds of vampires and the man that is on the cover of her book. She included an interview with him as well. I had always thought, as a child, that there was only one kind of vampire, the Sanguarians who required the drinking of blood. As I got older and started to research vampires, I found the Paranic/Energy/Psychic vampires that feed off the energy a person emits naturally. Her book explained that in addition to these two kinds of vampires, there is a Tantric/Sexual vampire, a lifestyle vampire that dresses up and is just into all things vampire, and then there is an Elemental vampire. What is an Elemental vampire? I wondered the same thing. She explains it as one that feeds off natural phenomenon like lightening, natural disasters, etc. She educated me and I love to learn new things! She examined the man on the cover, who is known as Vlad the Gothic Magician. He is a living vampire who understands the concept of blood and energy. He is also a Magician and performs regularly but not to children's birthday parties only. He has an older clientele for the most part due to his subject matter. He agreed to be on the cover of her book and the rest was history.
Bertena states that the vampire phenomenon has risen 75% recently and there is a call for anything and everything vampire related. She believes the vampire rage, "Represents what we fear most at that moment" and that's why it's so popular. She cautions that when dealing with vampires, "Not all things are what they appear". She has a wide variety of interests but she always comes back to vampires as her favorite. She started this book as a paper for her Masters course. Since then, after much research, she has turned it into a book worth reading for any vampire and newbie vampire lover. Bertena has big plans for this fall as she will be teaching a vampireologist course. You can reach her at:
[...]
[...]
[...]
I really enjoyed this book, though that's not surprising as I love vampires. She reiterated some things I already knew, explained some things' origins and practices that I also knew, and educated me on several new aspects of her book as well. She was very thorough and not only told you something but added examples to emphasize her point. The wealth of her knowledge is unparalleled. I usually start a book and put it down to come back to it later. Once I started reading her book, I couldn't put it down and was distressed when I had to do so to perform everyday tasks. Luckily, it was a quick and easy read. It really engulfed me, drew me into the book as I read. I commend her for such a comprehensive and wonderful book. I'm glad I took the time to read it as I was thoroughly entertained.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Reviewed by Read2Review
By Read2Review
I read "Lure of the Vampire" by Bertena Varney. The book is basically a survey of everything you could possibly want to know about vampires. It has a lot of good information, some of it very strange and off the wall. However, the main sections that had writing from the author had misspellings and incorrect word choice (every instead of very for example). I am not a huge fan of vampires to start with. What really got to me though is that the last section of the book is an about me section in which the author states this will be used as a *textbook* for a college class that she is teaching. She has two masters degrees and she didn't bother to spell check a novel/textbook that was published.
However much the writing style bothered me, there was a lot of good and interesting information presented in the book. It had information (easy to read lists) on a multitude of topics related to vampires starting with their history and moving to film and people who believe they are real life vampires. It also included essays written by various contributors (which had a much more polished writing style) and a few interviews with various "vampires" of today. I believed the information was good due to a very extensive bibliography in the back of the book which did show that a great deal of research had been done.
Personally, vampires are not my cup of tea and I skimmed over portions of this book, however, for a true vampire aficionado, this would be a great and thought-provoking book.
I would give it 2.5 out of 5 stars - good information, but it needed some more revision before it went to press.
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