Tag: Nosferatu

• A Tasty Sampler

  Recently, I’ve been collaborating with Lee Clark Zumpe to assemble a collection of vampire flash fiction. This is a follow-up to a collection we first released in 2008. The original collection was titled Blood Sampler: Subtle Sips and Spicy Shots and features 35 tales. Most of these tales are 150 words or less and first…

  David Lee Summers

  April 3, 2025

  characters, horror books, Personal Experience, Poetry, Reviews, Stories, vampires

  Blood Sampler, Bussard Ramjet, Christopher Lee, Dracula, flash fiction, Lee Clark Zumpe, Nosferatu, Peter Cushing, Poetry, skinwalker, The Hungur Chronicles, Twist ending

• Attractive and Monstrous Vampires

  When people learn I write about vampires, they often ask what kind of vampires I write about. They want to know if I write about monstrous vampires or attractive vampires. Monstrous vampires are the ones closer to the folkloric roots of vampires. These are the frightening wraiths that stalk the night. Examples might include Count…

  David Lee Summers

  February 1, 2024

  The Craft, vampires

  Anne Rice, attractive vampires, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dracula, Fiction, historical fiction, monstrous vampires, Nosferatu, Scarlet Order Vampires, writing

• Here Comes the Sun — But it Won’t Help

  Who doesn’t know that the best way to kill a vampire is to drive a stake through it’s heart, or to give it a good dose of Mr. Sunshine and watch the creature of the night burn up? We all know that, don’t we? Easy-Peasy. Just look at Buffy. So imagine my surprise when I…

  cwhawes

  June 8, 2023

  vampires

  Bram Stoker, Buffy, Dracula, Nosferatu, supernatural horror, vampires, vampires and sunlight