Vampires...they are the antithesis of sexy...Robert Pattinson should beware...
According to the diagnosis laid forth by legal novelist Chuck Hogan and master storyteller Guillermo Del Toro, the vampire is little more than a vermin to be exterminated with extreme (hatred for faggoty pseudo-romatic interpretations of the affliction) prejudice. I tend to agree.
The Strain is the first novel in a vampire-centric trilogy concieved by Del Toro and co-written by Hogan. Alas, this will not portray the vampire in the cinematically erotic position of 'Twilight' or 'Interview With The Vampire'...the decidedly romanticised vision of the vampire in cinema. Instead it will present the vampire in a more realistic light, as the scavenger of human sorrow.
The Strain starts with a plane landing without incident, but not answering any calls after the landing...not unlike that ship from that one vampire book...what was that ship called?!?! The DeeMeeter? Maybe The Demeter?
Yeah, everyone but four survivors are dead...sure the four survivors walk away...but after dark the rest of the passengers disappear from their respective morgues...
Despite what you've been shown...the sting of the vampire is not an erotic experience...but a savage emaciation by blood-thirsty savages with no regard for life of any kind!
You want to be truly scared...read The Strain by Guilermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan. It's scary as fuck...and steeped inreality...
Tyler
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