Re: Weak Vampires?

On Mar 17, 10:46 pm, Par <use...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> Because they are good at it? Have we looked for them? Sure, we wouild
> have noticed if tens of freshlyn drained corpses turned up in London
> each night, but what if 5% of the brain cancer incidence is explained by
> vampires draining the <mumble> from the victims mind?
>

Prayer to Broken Stones by Dan Simmons.  Short story:  "Metastatis".
Takes exactly that hypothesis, hero has a had a knock on the head of
some sort, resulting in vision at UV wavelengths and sees gremlin-like
creatures (or maybe worms, can't remember) that cause/feed from
cancers.  Creepy story.

Prayer to Broken Stones has a number of stories which formed the
nuclei of Simmon's successful early novels.  I guess by the time he
got to write Endymion he was down to recycling his ideas.

Also his vampires in Carrion Comfort feed on human suffering during
murders and would be near-undetectable unless one of them decided to
become buddies with the cattle and share the story.