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The Attraction Of Vampirism

Edvard Munch’s painting “Vampire,” 1893. (Munch Museum / Wikimedia Commons)

"...and to this hour the image of Carmilla returns to memory with ambiguous alternations - sometimes the playful, languid, beautiful girl; sometimes the writhing fiend I saw in the ruined church; and often from a reverie I have started, fancying I heard the light step of Carmilla at the drawing room door."

- From J. Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla

James Dorr writes short fiction and poetry leaning toward dark fantasy and horror, with his latest book a novel-in-stories, Tombs: A Chronicle of Latter-Day Times of Earth.

Today, he will read on the subject of vampires and things vampiric from his all-poetry collection Vamps (A Retrospective), which is available from White Cat Publications or Alban Lake Publishing). More information can also be found on James' blog.

James reads "Moonlight Swimming," "The Aeronaut," "When She Won the One Million Credit Galactic Lottery," and "The Esthete."

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