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Vampire Use In Contemporary Fantasy
fjeastman:
Read a book called Moon Called not too long ago, forget the author, a mid-list traditional fantasy writer I think ... sort of about werewolves. The protag is actually a native american skinwalker, but in the first book all that means is she turns into a coyote through innate magic instead of transforming physically into a wolf like her foster family.
Wasn't terrible. One of the current spate of: "Faeries and Supernatural Creatures Revealed Themselves In the World" setting books, as opposed to the Dresden style "They're There, But We Don't Know It".
Course it's also got vampires and faeries in it. My favorite part is the faeries were more germanic than english victorian revisionist. One of the characters is an old german gremlin.
--fje
novium:
I read an urban fantasy book a few weeks ago that had most of the usual urban fantasy creatures, but no vampires. It was pretty good, actually. Apropos of nothing, but it was unusual enough that I thought I'd mention it.
carpathic:
I don't use them, they are WAY overused. They are however convenient for an author because there are already a good set of preconceptions...you don't have to re-invent the wheel for a character that way.
The Corvidian:
--- Quote from: fjeastman on January 02, 2007, 11:29:32 PM ---
Read a book called Moon Called not too long ago, forget the author, a mid-list traditional fantasy writer I think ... sort of about werewolves. The protag is actually a native american skinwalker, but in the first book all that means is she turns into a coyote through innate magic instead of transforming physically into a wolf like her foster family.
Wasn't terrible. One of the current spate of: "Faeries and Supernatural Creatures Revealed Themselves In the World" setting books, as opposed to the Dresden style "They're There, But We Don't Know It".
Course it's also got vampires and faeries in it. My favorite part is the faeries were more germanic than english victorian revisionist. One of the characters is an old german gremlin.
--fje
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Her name is Katherine Briggs, and the sequel comes out in a month or two.
The Corvidian:
--- Quote from: terioncalling on January 02, 2007, 10:18:59 PM ---
--- Quote from: Willowhugger on December 25, 2006, 12:28:08 PM ---Sadly, it's been a while since the Howling and werewolves need a shot in the arm.
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I'm actually currently working on a werewolf story if any takes interest. Whenever the writer's board gets up'n runnin' I'll post the first chapter of it.
Also, on the vampire thing, I wondered if anyone had ever heard of this odd method of killing vampires that I found on the Encyclodpedia Mythica: stealing his left sock, filling it with stones and throwing it in a river. That one just makes my brain go "...gwah?"
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The vampire sock method showed up in the cartoon Jackie Chan Adventures.
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