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- Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
- Date: Tuesday, 17 Nov 1992 10:37:51 CST
- From: <U16244@uicvm.uic.edu>
- Message-ID: <92322.103751U16244@uicvm.uic.edu>
- Newsgroups: alt.vampyres
- Subject: Couldn't mail this, so I'll post it to the net
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- > Another set you might consider is the literature from Asia (mostly Japan
- > and China) on vampires. They are essentially Western zombies, literally
- I do know about Japanese Vampires, but China has no truly official vampire
- mythology of its own, I thought. However, your descriptions do seem to be
- very much like what was presented in the Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires,
- what with those vampires looking more like zombies than the European blood-
- suckers.
- > I hope this helps.
- It does. I was going to do a story where my hero, Terry Wolf (nee Wilcze,
- which is Polish for Wolf-cub), went to China when Tepes intended to get
- a boost of power from the blood of a dragon which could exist in the daytime.
- I had already done an earlier version, but didn't know what kind of undead
- were native to the region.
- >
- > Good luck and good hunting. I'd be interested to read what you've got
- > when it's available if you have the time and inclination to drop me a
- > line at that time.
- Well, the information I'm storing will be put in my notebook. It will include
- also the vampires from from the Palladium system (Rifts Vampire Kingdoms),
- and I'd like to see if I can find the vampires introduced in the issue of
- Dragon to see if they really are applicable.
-
- However, if you are interested, send me your snail-mail address and I'll send
- you the origin story of Terry Wolf once I finish writing it, since this is
- not the computer I use at home to write, but the one at school.
- And any ideas you'd like to see done for a vampire story would be fine
- if you toss them my way. I'm looking into perhaps maybe a pen-pal once I
- get out of college, since I'll miss the correspondance I get on the net.
-
- >
- > -Rox
- Douglas P. Wojtowicz (creator of Terrence Wolf, Vampire.)
-
- (Added note, after the fact: If anyone else out there is interested in
- my ideas, or has a few suggestions, then I'll be glad to take either. Also,
- if there is a specific magazine which seems interested in Vampire stories,
- bring it up on the net, and I'll toss Terry into the fire- especially since
- his breed is flameproof.)
-