Horror Fantasy

[close] Vampire aliens, Superheroes with BITE! Book series about warriors of virtue aimed at young adults/adults.

[close] This is the official Goodreads group page for the Book Club in Frederick Horror Fans! If you live in the Frederick, MD area, love horror, and love reading horror literature, join us! You can find our main group page on Facebook (look up Frederick Horror Fans)! There you will find all of the info about our book club group chat and our upcoming meetings!

[close] A place where people can come together over books, stars and a fascination for libraries! Writers and readers both welcome! Share a tale, drop a recommendation and make a new friend!

[close] A vampire is a being from folklore who subsists by feeding on the life essence (generally in the form of blood) of living creatures. Undead beings, vampires often visited loved ones and caused mischief or deaths in the neighbourhoods they inhabited when they were alive. They wore shrouds and were often described as bloated and of ruddy or dark countenance, markedly different from today's gaunt, pale vampire which dates from the early 19th century. Although vampiric entities have been recorded in most cultures, the term vampire was not popularized in the west until the early 18th century, after an influx of vampire superstition into Western Europe from areas where vampire legends were frequent, such as the Balkans and Eastern Europe, although local variants were also known by different names, such as shtriga in Albania, vrykolakas in Greece and strigoi in Romania. This increased level of vampire superstition in Europe led to what can only be called mass hysteria and in some cases resulted in corpses actually being staked and people being accused of vampirism.