"You Know Too Much to Live"
Of course, as with all lore, literature, and film, there are many offshoots of the traditional biting rituals as represented by Stoker's Dracula, including vampiric plagues and outer space soul suckers, or conversely, the withholding of predatory violence due to true romantic love between human and preternatural being.
Vampires are complex creatures, and that the very definition of vampirism has been stretched to accommodate even deeper levels of physical, emotional, spiritual, and psychic turmoil is evidence of their evolution as you'll see when we highlight popular writers of modern-day fiction, and examine vampires in the modern era.
Oddly enough, there doesn't seem to be an expert consensus as to what a group of vampires is called. Throughout film and both fiction and nonfiction they're variously referred to as a clutch, a brood, or a coven. In folklore, they're often referred to as a pack, while in some arenas they are also known as a clan or divided into bloodlines.
Whether vampires truly exist or not is up to you. We, like so many other chroniclers of history and lore, can do no more than explore the vampiric realm and limn its depths — however sane or supernatural they may be. To quote Sir Anthony Hopkins's eccentric and affable Van Helsing in Bram Stoker's Dracula: “We've all become God's madmen … all of us.” With that in mind, it's time for us to play Van Helsing and let you in on the secrets of the most seductive, exotic, erotic, hypnotic, and dangerous creatures on the planet.
