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- From: z_coolidgejs@ccsvax.sfasu.edu
- Newsgroups: alt.vampyres
- Subject: werewolf newsgroup, how I found vampires
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.123313.1857@ccsvax.sfasu.edu>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 12:33:13 CST
- References: <1992Nov16.153838.26488@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- Organization: Stephen F. Austin State University
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- In article <!@@@#%$@#$&$&^&$???>, mbur@nyx.cs.du.edu (MAC) writes:
-
- > For those interested, I just issued a newgroup for alt.horror.werewolves.
- > It should be making its way to your site in the next day or so.
-
- > TTFN,
- > M
-
- I guess the newsgroup name alt.oh.no.it's.happening fell through. :)
- Seriously, I'm glad it came together. Now we don't have to bug the vampyre
- people anymore. Seryously,
- Will the newsgroup appear magically in my newsrc program on my VAX
- account? Or will I have to delete it and get a new newsrc? Or, is there the
- possibility that my site won't carry it? (I read something about an alt.wolves
- newsgroup. I have not seen it, or else I would have been on it some time ago.)
-
- While I'm in the area, I remember someone doing a survey of how people
- became interested in vampires. I'll admit that I'm a bit of a vampire fan, or
- else I would not have found this group.
- Werewolves and vampires are close together. According to Joshua York in
- _Fevre Dream_ (a wonderful Vampire novel, by the way, by George R. R. Martin.
- Check it out.), they are "...two different sides of the same dark coin." My
- interest in werewolves traces back to May 4, 1987 when I watched, of all
- things, the movie _Teen Wolf_ on network TV. I started developing my own
- werewolf story, and from there it evolved from a petty thread in my mind into
- the most well developed story I have ever imagined.
- Every time I tried to find out more info on werewolves, vampires were not
- that far away. Some legends mixed them up together. Vlkolak, for example, is
- a name for both creatures. Werewolves in death according to some legends leads
- to vampirism. Both conditions are considered diseases in some modern stories.
- Both lycanthropes and vampires have a nasty, enticing bite. And both attract a
- swarm of Freudians who discuss their sexual imagery.
- But vampires have so much better movies. In all of werewolf cinema there
- is only a handful of good movies. Vampires, on the other paw, have all sorts
- of nifty flicks out there. They even have a lead guy--Count Dracula. The
- closest that werewolves have had is Larry Talbot, the Wolf Man, but he lacks
- Draula's literary history.
- Well, thanks for lending me your ears, be they round, pointed, or furry.
-
- Z_CoolidgeJS@ccsvax.sfasu.edu Jonathan S. Coolidge
- A___A "Don't stray from the path,
- / o o \ never eat a wind fallen apple,
- \/\ /\/ and most important of all, never
- " trust a man whose eyebrows meet..."
- --The Grandmother from _The Company of Wolves_
-