Vampire Poetry Part 2


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My planned column about Karen Koehler and her Slayer series has been postponed while I review her just released Dragon's Blood, so I will continue with Vampire Poetry, Part 2.

While I was doing research on vampire poetry, I came across Vanyell DelaCroix. Vanyell DelaCroix is the vampire personae of Cliff T. Roberts. Since 1998, Vanyell DelaCroix has been seen across Northern Texas around Halloween reading his vampire versus. He has won awards for his poems as well as his costume. He has two books of vampire poetry available from SynergEbooks, In Another Vein and Daysleeper, a book of children's vampire poems. Be sure to visit SynergEbooks and take a look at Vanyell DelaCroix all dressed up in his vampire regalia. http://www.synergebooks.com/Authors/Vany...

Vanyell DelaCroix hangs out at Authors Den and The Cyber Crypt http://members.nbci.com/_XMCM/vaquero13/... Where beside his poetry you can find a list of over 200 vampire books and a tribute to Javier Vachon, from Forever Knight.

Vanyell also hosts the Undead Poets Society. http://members.nbci.com/vanpire13/ As, Vanyell puts it, "The Purpose of the Undead Poets Society is to secure fuller public recognition of the art of dark poetry, encouraging the writing of vampiric verses, and to kindle a finer and more intelligent appreciation of vampire/gothic poetic literature, whether it be through the work of dead, living or undead poets who interpret the spirit and emotions of their heart." Check out their poetry and their links page for more links to dark poetry.

Speaking of dead and undead poets, Christian Larsen hosts The Blood Of Dead Poets which claims to be one of the biggest collections of dark poetry from different independent poets on the web. The site currently contains over one hundred poems from more than fifty poets. http://blood.tsotb.com/index.html

For those of you with a bit more risque and darker tastes, Illona at www.bloodlust-uk.com hosts a fan poetry page where some of the poems are graphic - either in sexual or vampiric content or both. http://www.bloodlust-uk.com/poetry.htm

On a personal note, my book The Eyes of Truth was just accepted for publication by Twilight Times Books and will be published February 2002. The Eyes of Truth is a fantasy mystery novel set in the Kingdom of Naj, an exotic place where watch dragons bugle warning of impending disaster, soothsayers seek answers from house elementals, the spirits of the dead return to haunt the living during the festival of Ram-sho, and some possess the Eyes of Insu, the power to tell if a man lies. The Dyamu, ruler of Naj, has sent his brother, Dar, as his Hand, on a mission to discover the

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