I'd always half-wondered about the garlic, but there are so many strange food-related anti-supernatural superstitions (the one that comes to mind is detecting a changeling by brewing beer in an eggshell), so it's sort of par for the course, so to speak.
(Reading about vampires on Wikipedia. I suddenly have an insatiable need to make fun of Lord Byron. It comes from time to time; it will pass. :p)
I very much like the psychic imprint concept; it suits my ideas of magic's mechanisms, and it suits the vaguely conceptualised world of my maybe-novel.
I'm very fond of the attractive vampire trope, , because I like that the evil isn't immediately obvious as such, and people going "aaaah, a vampire!" as they might say "aaah, a rat!" (okay, a really big, vicious rat that will kill you, painfully) and running away makes for a very flat story. :p Actually, I think I find that I like vampires to appear relatively like normal people (except...spookier, and prone to archaic speech patterns, and so far I have only ever read one book that mentioned the effect extreme longevity might be expected to have on a vampire's language, and that one was protagonist-ed (can I use protagonist as a verb? :p) by a PHILOLOGIST, and I spent quite a lot of the book making little squeaky language-geek noises), at least if they try hard enough, because the idea of The Horrible Thing That Could Be Amongst Us is more fun than it really has any right to be.
Also, I would be utterly thrilled at any book recommendations, because Amazon is sort of rubbish as a resource. :p (Parenthesis therapy would be nice, too.)
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Date: 2008-02-18 12:19 am (UTC)(Reading about vampires on Wikipedia. I suddenly have an insatiable need to make fun of Lord Byron. It comes from time to time; it will pass. :p)
I very much like the psychic imprint concept; it suits my ideas of magic's mechanisms, and it suits the vaguely conceptualised world of my maybe-novel.
I'm very fond of the attractive vampire trope, , because I like that the evil isn't immediately obvious as such, and people going "aaaah, a vampire!" as they might say "aaah, a rat!" (okay, a really big, vicious rat that will kill you, painfully) and running away makes for a very flat story. :p Actually, I think I find that I like vampires to appear relatively like normal people (except...spookier, and prone to archaic speech patterns, and so far I have only ever read one book that mentioned the effect extreme longevity might be expected to have on a vampire's language, and that one was protagonist-ed (can I use protagonist as a verb? :p) by a PHILOLOGIST, and I spent quite a lot of the book making little squeaky language-geek noises), at least if they try hard enough, because the idea of The Horrible Thing That Could Be Amongst Us is more fun than it really has any right to be.
Also, I would be utterly thrilled at any book recommendations, because Amazon is sort of rubbish as a resource. :p (Parenthesis therapy would be nice, too.)