Re: Weak Vampires?

On 2008-03-17, Michael Grosberg <grosberg.michael@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> I was wondering what is the minimum requirement for still being called
> a vampire. Obviously the one common theme in all vampire fiction is
> that they have to drink blood. But the other recurrent theme is that
> vampires are harder to kill and they are faster and physically
> stronger than ordinary humans. Vampires, in other words, are top
> predators.

Well, the drinking blood isn't a hard-and-fast requirement.  See, for
example, "The Mindworm" by Cyril Kornbluth, or the White Court vampires
in Jim Butcher's Harry Dresden novels.  While these don't suck blood,
they do live off of something less substantial from their victims.
This parasitic consumption of something that it's possible to slowly
lose might be the minimum requirement.

-- 
Aaron Denney
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