Now there are Bill Compton dolls...

A couple of days ago I had an unpublished rant about Twilight dolls... and at first glance it looks as though the marketing crap has made its way over to true blood. However, as Gabrielle faust writes for the examiner, the Bill Compton doll at least looks as though some effort has gone into it.

MTV has a piece of fluff today about the vampires of Twilight and True Blood.

Newsmax has an article today that contains a couple of bits of news - new vampire books on the way, quote below.

"Christian books, too, are jumping into the vampire genre, an example being Eric Wilson's “Jerusalem's Undead.” It’s a trilogy, which features creatures that have taken on the undead status because they’ve been infected with the blood of Judas.

There’s also a new book that’s a religious version of “Twilight.” It’s called "Thirsty," and the main vampire, whose name is Markus, is a kind of demon."

Trueblood.net has a bit of news about an upcoming vampire convention in LA mid august - "Vampire Con 1" with an updated schedule.

Gabrielle Faust spotted this, something that might make fans of True Blood's Eric fall over.

The FayObserver today has a piece on current YA vampire novels out there.

Vampire Cafe has a review of the excellent Being Human, now being shown on BBC America over in the states.

More thirst reviews, Vampire Diaries new posters

Twilight stuff out of the way first... the HD room has a bunch of set visit reports from new Moon here.

The NYTimes has news of the Reelzchannel introducing a weekly prime-time programme on Twilight here.

And the last mention of twilight for today - the examiner has a piece called "why does my child relate to the Twilight series"

HollywoodToday has its thoughts on "Thirst" here, and Dread Central has its detailed review of the film here.

IOL entertainment has an interesting piece on Johnny Depp and his fascination with vampires.

Multipleversus.com has some new posters for "The Vampire Diaries" here.

Something for dracula lovers has gone on sale... the dracula jersey shopper bag.

Taliesin has his review of the classic "Vampire Hunter D" today.

A new graphic novel, and Cirque du Freque comes closer...

ok...apologies for no news yesterday, sisters wedding kept me otherwise occupied!

Lets make up for it with this... Vampire Cafe spotted this, a clip from soon-to-be-released "Thirst".

heres something new... "Red : A vampiric graphic novel". Saw this over at Vampire Cafe, it is by one of the community members.

Shocktilyoudrop.com has a preview of the "Jennifers Body" graphic novel. Still not sure of this is vampire or not, but i'll put the links and let you decide.

Alternet.org has a piece today on vampires, women, true blood and sex.

Nola.com has news of Darren Shan's novel "cirque du freque" - retitled "The Vampires Assistant" and has been moved forwards to OCt 23rd for release.

Google news has a nice long piece on recent vampire novels here.

923now.com has something i daren't read. "Twilight inspired vampire Romance for kids"

Taliesin today has a lot more detail on three links i've had here over the last couple of days. "The Last American vampire, Mercy's revenge" has a trailer here, "Strigoi" looks interesting, adn the trailer is now on youtube... and finally some more info on "Thirst" with some videos to watch here.

AAARG... my buddy taliesin is occasionally on the receiving end of a rant from me when i see something so... so... i have no words. Twilight cream filled heart shaped chocolates. I repeat, AAARG!

Friday's Frights

Apologies if there is no update tomorrow - sisters wedding, so i may well be busy!

Right, straight into the news from today.

Dread Central today has a piece on "Dracula : the Undead" by Dacre Stoker - possible film adaptation on the way?

Dread Central also has casting news for Twilight 3 (Eclipse) - Xavier Samuel has signed up.

Monstersandcritics.com has a review today of new vamp film "thirst".

Comicbookresources.com today does a piece on vampires in comics - lots of dracula!

More on the vampires vs werewolves fundraising event for wolf and bat charities here, from theexaminer.com.

It seems the emmy's have decided to ignore true blood, despite it being the most successful series out there at the moment... MTV has reaction to its zero nominations here.

The LA Times has news from the set of Twilight 2, "New Moon" here.

The Examiner also has a piece today on vampire tv series here.

Newsweek.com has a good long article on why the ladies love vampires.

Projo.com has news of a new vampire film : "The Last American Vampire : Mercy's revenge"

Vampire Cafe spotted this - a behind the scenes look at true Blood season 2.

Another spot by Vampire Cafe here - new film Strigoi (includes trailer!)

Taliesin does his vamp-or-not today on "Blue Jean Monster", a hong kong film from 1991.

Thursday's Bites

Lets start with this : The Examiner.com has news of a fundraising event, vampires vs werewolves here.

Agh... first the edward cullen twilight doll, now this. Stephanie Meyer : the comic. no further comment needed.

The Romanian times website has news of a festival at Bran castle (draculas castle to tourists everywhere).

News of a new 1-hour documentary on Dracula now, to be shown in the UK on BBC4.

Google news next - an article on christian fiction now publishing vampire stories.

IO9 has a poll on who should play Eli in the "let the right one in" remake.

Bitten By Books today has a review of "biting the Bullett" by Jennifer Rardin.

This tickled me - i'll admit, i havent seen all the Angel episodes. Vampire Cafe spotted this.



Finally, Taliesin does another Vamp-or-not on La Notte Dei Dannati, a 1971 italian horror film.