The Book of Vampires mainly talks about vampire across the world, how other contries percieve them, but the part that stuck out the most to me was about how not all vampires suck blood. What could these vampires possibly gain by spreading a disease or strangling someone? And what the hell does "Causing a retarded death by various other means" mean? Does that mean clobbering someone over the head with a streetlamp or something equally bizare? Why do they have to stake the vampire first? Why not just burn the sucker? This chapter does a good job of explaining how they do something, but not why.
The Phantom World talks about Spectres and apparitions and how they've reeked havoc on the lives of townspeople. Personally, I can believe all this. Even now, in our 'Space aged society', things that can't be explained, like apparitions, still occur. Apparitions show up to announce deaths before they happen, spirits show up to warn of danger and lead people away. If this stuff still happens now, whos to say it didn't happen in the past? I have never, though, in modern day, heard of them digging up someone who has been dead for a few years to find them as though they had only just died. I don't know, maybe they have and I just missed it, but this is all sort of a recap of everything I've read in The Legends of Blood.
Tale of a Russian Vampire- did anyone else get the feeling is guy was a no good lifesucker even before he died and became a vampire? The vengeful bastard... So, I guess that, because even after he forced his wife to promise to stay single before he dies, when she falls in love again, her dead husband arose from the grave and sought to punish her. I wouldn't have bothered driving a stake though the bastard, I would have just doused his body in gasoline and set it ablaze.
Vampires of Roumania- I sort of invisioned The Girl and the Vampire sort of being like Romeo and Julliet only instead, when the girl and the boy could finally be together, the girl freaks out. If she finally has the man she loves with her and get laid every night, why wouldn't she accept him? Instead of being happy, she lies to him, letting him kill her dad, mom, and the girl herself, and ultimatly destroys him to live happily ever after with the emperor's son. I mean, damn, this girl's not greatful unless she's sitting on a throne.
A Vampire Story from Botosani- So, I guess the Vampire in this story really did like the girl and was just trying to get her attention. When the girl disappears into the forest, the vampire sent out a search party, though he killed them when they could not find her. He even takes her to his house in the forest and begins to clean up for her. She, however, freaks out once more and flees to a house where a dead man lays on the table, curls up on the stove and tries to sleep. In defence of the vampire being angry, he really did seem to be trying to appease her, but she was too scared to see it. When the vampire comes after her and enters the house, the dead man arises, and mortal combat is ensured. When the girl wakes up, she is amazed by the beauty of the forest and runs home to bring her parents to the house. However, her parents kill her because she had become a vampire.
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retarded means slowed down. So they probably mean they cause a slow painful death
ReplyDeleteI agree, I really don't know what the heck the girl in THE GIRL AND THE VAMPIRE's problem was. It did say something about her not wanting to be with a sinner or something like that, but she was pretty selfish, not considering the sacrifice he made so they could be together.
I compleately agree with you with what you said about the first story about some not sucking blood, i also agree with what you said a bout th story A girl and a Vampire now that i thnk about it, also when you said you would just set it on fire that sounds like you.
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