...in other spheres of Victorian Society the appeal of a young woman dressed in black from head to toe was acknowledged. In Victorian popular culture, widows had two manifestations: the battleaxe and the man-eater, preying upon husbands and bachelors alike. Even today, an attractive, dark-haired person dressed in all black has vampiric connotations, as the novelist Alison Lurie has noted, 'so archetypally terrifying and thrilling, that any black-haired, pale-complexioned man or woman who appears clad in all black formal clothes projects a destructive eroticism, sometimes without concious intention.

Catharine Arnold

Tag: death black vampiric

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Tell me, Eric,” he said, licking a droplet from the corner of his mouth. “Have you ever tasted blood?”
       My mouth was so dry I could barely find the voice to answer him. “What an odd question...”
       “But a valid one. Well, have you?”
       “I’ve cut my lip before, so yes, I suppose I have tasted blood, but...”
       “Not your own, you foolish boy.” He let out a short, derisive laugh and leaned in so that he was only a few inches from my face. “I mean the blood of another.”
       “Good God, Stefan, of course not!”
       “Pity...

Melika Dannese Hick

Tag: horror vampires supernatural shock revelations vampiric corcitura hybrid-vampires vampiric-logic vrykolakas stefan-belododia stefan-ratliff eric-bradburry melika-dannese-lux vampiric-eating-habits upyr vampires-in-venice blood-drinking drinking-blood sangue-di-vita vampiric-diet

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She rounded on me with such ferocity that for a moment I didn’t recognize her. A flash of fangs, a dark gleam in her blacker-than-night eyes. It was the most vampiric I’d ever seen her.

Melika Dannese Hick

Tag: vampires werewolves prague fangs vampiric corcitura hybrid-vampires leonora-bianchetti vrykolakas eric-bradburry upyr blacker-than-night-eyes

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