Can we please explain to the masses...

[Lady Cassandra]

...that as far as a hero/anithero, vampires are not that sexy.

God, I am getting so damned tired of reading vampire stories.

Cheers!
Cass

 

[JohnMorrison]

ive never understood whats appealing about that....or incest or lots of weird things for that matter

 

[Akito01]

I guess the obvious question is, what would make a more interesting alternatve. I've tended to stay away from the vampire genre myself, since I tend to share the same kind of view. All the angst in the world doesn't really take away from the fact that they are basically serial killers with keen fashion sense.

I always come up against a bit of a wall when thinking of alternatives. I like the idea of exploring the mermaid genre a bit, and have written a couple of stories, but the myth of the 'siren' as an evil entity has rather faded into obscurity. I'd like to do a really good erotic ghost story, but it's been done a fair bit already, and I haven't read any that have really struck a strong chord with me.

I dunno, what would make for a good non-human or erotic-horror story that hasn't been done to death already?

 

[LadiDarkMoon]

Akito01 I know all about your mermaid story...I am addicted to it. Clinging desperately to my computer waiting for the next chapter...

But I have to agree, the whole vampire thing here on lit is over done. I don't mind reading them when there is more substance to the story, but all of them just seem so cookie cutter.

 

[MasochisticToy]

What I want to know is, if someone is so sick of reading certain kinds of stories, why are they? lol


~Toy

 

[snooper]

... God, I am getting so damned tired of reading vampire stories. ...

Then don't read them; read mine instead.

 

[wishfulthinking]

What I want to know is, if someone is so sick of reading certain kinds of stories, why are they? lol


~Toy

I was thinking the exact same thing!

Dammit, there is nothing wrong [or original ] with my cookie cutter vamp story!

 

[MasochisticToy]

It's a shame, too, I actually like Vampyric erotica. Oh well.

 

[sirhugs]

of course, Lit is designed to be a hetrogenetity, not a homogeneity, celebrating diversity, so it is wonderful that some folks like some stories, but not others, and vice versa.

Denigrating fans of vampire fiction as " the masses" buys into the fallacy that the internet is mass communications. It only looks like it. What it is is a tool to easily disseminate narrow views broadly.

A prior poster lumped " incest" in with vampires as unappealing. Yet any writer will tell you that incest stories generate the most views. The top ten most read stories are all incest stories. So they clearly have appeal to somebody.

On the other hand, it is also true that no incest story is high in voting scores. The highest I found was at # 207. The votes favour longer more highly developed stories ( a disproportionate number of novels score well, given how few are submitted).

Differennt audiences read Lit for a variety of reasons. Some of us read for more than one reason ourselves.

Milady makes an excellent point that variety is the spice of life, and of Lit. What ideas hath she for other tales of misadventure?

 

[Guest]

Mine's pretty original.

The antihero of my story isn't a traditional vampire, though. But, she is the Mistress of Ceremonies of a vampiric ritual. The poor guys never stood a chance.

Lou - lover of erotic horror (but also one who usually shys away from the bulk-standard vampire story. I just have refined tastes. No, not in blood).

P.S. A link to The Letting, just in case.

 

[sirhugs]

Lou is always an original.

 

[destinie21]

...that as far as a hero/anithero, vampires are not that sexy.

God, I am getting so damned tired of reading vampire stories.

Cheers!
Cass

That all depends on how it's done, there are things I never would have considered sexy if some authour hadn't made me think about it.

 

[Esha]

<Shrug>
I am a fan of the vamp...although I like little twists here and there...


I think vamp stories are popular because they give the hero/anti a reason to be animalistic, with a laid down cultural president of rules and history. We have a relationship with the vampire before the story even starts. So some of the character development is already done. In a short story, particularly one that is focusing on a particular emotional reaction (say fear, or arousal) that comes in handy because of the limited format.

 

[sirhugs]

in a Freudian sense, vampires are all about sex...well, sex and death, esp the death of innocence....and there is a reason the French call the female orgasm " le petit mort" ( the little death)