Something in the Blood: The Underground World of Today's Vampires [Hardcover]

Jeff Guinn (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 22, 1997

Turn up your collar, turn down the lights, and sink your teeth into Something in the Blood

Product Details

• Hardcover: 218 pages
• Publisher: The Summit Publishing Group; 1ST edition (January 22, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1565302095
• ISBN-13: 978-1565302099
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.8 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,289,202 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Scratching the Surface of the Scene, April 22, 1999

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Michelle Belanger "author, lecturer, and avid... (NE Ohio) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Something in the Blood: The Underground World of Today's Vampires (Hardcover)

Having worked with Jeff Guinn and Andy Greiser as they created this book, I have to say that it achieves what it set out to do: to introduce people who have no familiarity with the scene to vampire culture. The people interviewed in the book cover a wide range of stereotypes you will find in the scene. Through "Something in the Blood" we meet the vampire researcher, Liriel McMahon, who delves into vampirism in order to better understand herself; we meet the obsessive "victim", Christine Darque, whose brush with someone else's vampirism left her forever changed; the vampire celebrity is represented by Vlad of Dark Theater who wears his vampirism like a costume while on stage yet practices it quite seriously in the privacy of his own home. The only aspect of the culture that was not thoroughly explored was the more mystical and religious aspect of vampirism, as represented by such individuals as DarkRose and Cayne Presley. These women have a fully developed spiritual belief that goes hand in hand with their vampiric practices. This aspect of the scene was not adequately addressed by Guinn's book, mainly because this was a little too esoteric for Guinn's vision of his book. But in all, Something in the Blood is an adequate introduction to the vampire culture growing in the world today.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Living with a victim of vampirism., April 19, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Something in the Blood: The Underground World of Today's Vampires (Hardcover)

Cayne Presley found it necessary to move after the book "Something in the Blood" came out. Fortunately, she was befriend by a Wiccan known as Shadow who has brought her to covenstead to live with the rest of us. Cayne turns out to be a wonderful house companion. There is no need for turtle neck sweaters or garlic cloves (wouldn't help, she'd just put them in with her food). She has spoken to me, now her priest, about this book. While it captures some of the flavor of her life, it is no where near the truth as it preports to be. For instant, her first experience with drinking blood was with her female cousin and not a male. She confines her drinking of human blood to her current mate and feels that he will be her mate for life. She now walks a double difficult path as both a vampire and a Wiccan ...Her life is not easy and nothing like the book would lead you to believe. If you like to contact us - Virbius, Shadow, or Cayne write us at A Bard's Corner, 6115 Dyer ST, El Paso, TX 7990

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Very poorly researched as well as limited in field., March 20, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Something in the Blood: The Underground World of Today's Vampires (Hardcover)

I was greatly disapointed by this book. I felt it read more like a gothic diary. The research was one sided, highly opinionated and very critical of those interviewed. There could have been ( should have been ) more research into actual living vampire lifestylers,instead of those who were protrayed as freaks, loosers and tragic cases. The authors could have taken a few lessons from J. G. Melton or Martin V. Riccardo.Hopefully someday there will arrive in the literary field one such book that actally shows all sides of vampires.