My Favorite Vampire:
The Pishtaco
by Theresa Bane
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Lots of people are interested in vampires, as can be proven by the wild success of books like Twilight, the Sookie Stackhouse series, and the classic Interview With A Vampire. But for me, reading vampire fiction or watching vampire movies is difficult because I know the history and the mythology of the vampire so intimately that I get hung-up in the details. I know that authors use artistic license to make the vampire their own creation so that it best fits into the fictional world that they have created. What bothers me is that so many authors who utilize vampires in their fiction do not bother to do any research into vampires to begin with and simply alter someone else’s fictional vampire into their own. Paraphrasing is not inventing, it’s the watering down and streamlining of something else. To “re-invent” something that has been paraphrased is not creating something new and original. Read More→