If you have something to say, write a book. put your ideas out there for scrutiny. I would personally welcome the opportunity to see your view point. Otherwise, you need to take a deep breath . . . release, realize that you are not undead, stop spending so much energy on avoiding life and spend a little living it.

I did not say that people who drink blood do not exist; I said that vampires do not exist. If you tell me that you drink blood I will share with you this truth: it is not only unhealthy to do so as the human body has no way to digest it in such a fashion that ANY nutritional value can be drawn from it whatsoever, but also, humans do not crave it. People who say that are at best mistaken. There are psychological disorders where some people are compelled to eat strange things, like glass or blood, but that is not vampirism. The consumption of blood does not make a person a vampire; it never has and never will. Many vampires do not even drink blood but feast upon an array of foodstuffs including feces.

Chinese vampires by the way, are not born they are created. There is no mythology of a person being born as a vampire or doing anything to become a vampire while remaining alive. Vampires in the Chinese are either revenants, that is to say, some sort of undead creature – or—some sort of spirit. Traditionally, if a person was to attack someone and drink their blood I find it hard to believe that anyone who holler “vampire.” In more modern times, yes, but that would be due to Western influences.

My two cents on the matter: What a vampire is or is not has been up to debate for centuries and still remains so. Vampires have become a myth due to peoples’ fears and misunderstanding and especially due to superstition. The fact that science has not caught up to reality does not help matters.

When village folk, however, centuries ago saw that a corpse had become bloated and changed, they had no idea of science and assumed it was a vampire. So, science has helped to an extent.

Hypothetically, there are a group of people- say a small village of people- and one finds he needs blood or even chi and starts to attack people not knowing how to control what is inside of himself. It is a need and not a psychological disorder- a physical need. He is the only one like this in the whole village and the village is very remote. Without others like himself, he has no way to learn but to try on his own. He feels very much in darkness and isolated within.

The people of the village discover what he is doing and they are very superstitious folks. They say he is a monster- a demon- a devil. The tribal shaman tries to purge this evil from him and fails. He is driven from the village and becomes feral. Eventually he finds another village and on it goes.

Now we have Houses such as mine for those of us who need these things physically. We do not turn into bats or sleep in grave dirt. We do not turn into green mist. We do not sparkle in the sun either. However, what we do is make a significant contribution to society when we have support. So many of us are brilliant artists, musicians, etc. To say that we do not exist because of legend and mythological portrayal- let alone vampire fiction- is absurd. And to those who say that we are delusional, I say- wait for a number of years- science will catch up and the unreliable and dubious soft science called “Psychology” and current ideas about us will change.

In my newest book, “The Encyclopedia of Vampire Mythology” I define what a vampire is. Since the book is set to be released in another month, I’ll go ahead and paraphrase what I said in it:

Vampires, what they are and how they are defined, are set by the cultures who create them. The reason that there are so many different species of vampires from all over the world and throughout recorded history is because the definition of what a vampire is changes. What the Inuit in Alaska consider a vampire to be is so radically different from what the Ashanti tribes of Africa consider a vampire to be. Some vampires need blood to survive, some need semen, some consume tattoos while other thrives off of meditative thoughts. Most vampires from the Greek isles do not even need to eat.

In my opinion, I feel that a creature such as the vampire cannot have a single definition as it morphs to fill the needs of the culture or society that creates its mythology. However, in light of the 600 plus different species of vampires that have recorded in my book, as far as I know, no one has ever provided proof to their existence.