Welcome to my New Blog!

Hello everyone!

My name is Elliot and I've just started my new blog. New and exciting things will happen here, but mostly this is a place to talk and discuss Vampires.

I’m writing my doctoral thesis on vampires. Well more accurately, I am re -examining and refining Montague Summers' classic The Vampire: His Kith and Kin, published in 1928.

it’s a classic. Rather unreadable, full of inaccuracies and gaps. But my life’s work has been to simplify it drastically while retaining as much as possible of the flavor and content of the original – and of course to fill and build on it exponentially. I want to explore and analyze the origin and creation of the vampire, to completely research and dissect the vampire's world and culture, as well as how they are represented both stereotypically and socially in literature and film through history.

it’s such a rich and powerful subject matter that has practically been ignored, or more like, snubbed by the scientific and academic community. I’m still trying to convince my advisor that this is a viable subject matter but I'm getting close.

In particular, if anybody has any information on a certain vampire named Zahn, he is a crucial aspect of my research, I would love to chat with you.

Oh, I've just started a new job, working at my Uncle's bar a few days a week for some extra cash in between my research. He's also been kind enough to let me sleep on his couch since I got kicked out of my old place. Hopefully, something will come up to give me a more permanent residence.

That is all! Bite ya later!

Elliot