Piercing the Darkness: Undercover With Vampires in America Today
by Ramsland, KatherineFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1999-09-17
Publisher(s): HarperCollins Publications
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Summary
<P>By day they are accountants, secretaries, lawyers.But by night, they transform into creatures of the darkness,purveyors of the surreal where flesh and fantasy meet.</P><P>They are vampires.</P><P>Going beyond the scariest imaginings of Anne Rice, clinicalpsychologist and journalist Katherine Ramsland takes youon a mesmerizing, personal tour deep inside the little knownyet growing "vampyre" subculture that exists today in citieslike your own.Discover a society you never believed existed.Find out what these people do, and why they do it. Visitmembers-only clubs where "liquid electricity"--blood--isthe favored currency of intimate exchange, and share in"feeding circles." Meet lovers whose sex toys are razors andstraps and others who reject normality the way manydenounce the practices they hold sacred. You may thinkyou've seen or heard everything. You may even think you'reunshockable. <I>You're wrong.</I></P>
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. vii |
| Note | p. xi |
| The Vanishing | p. 1 |
| In the Beginning | p. 25 |
| Vampires Online | p. 45 |
| A Delicate Balance | p. 85 |
| The Well-Read Vampire | p. 100 |
| Vampiric Diversions | p. 124 |
| New York by Night | p. 146 |
| Different Tastes | p. 170 |
| The Vampyre Mystique | p. 197 |
| In the Heartland | p. 223 |
| Blood Ties | p. 248 |
| I'm Okay, You're a Vampire | p. 269 |
| Let the Games Begin | p. 298 |
| Vampires Intercontinental | p. 317 |
| The Disarticulated Soul | p. 336 |
| Interview with a Vampire | p. 359 |
| The Vampire Underground | p. 384 |
| Vampire Crimes | p. 412 |
| The Glorious Exit | p. 441 |
| The Tao of the Vampire | p. 472 |
| Epilogue | p. 487 |
| Afterword | p. 494 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 523 |
| Bibliography | p. 526 |
| Resources | p. 530 |
| Index | p. 533 |
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