![]() ![]() ![]() Ramsland becomes deeply involved with the vampire society and credibly offers comprehensive information about the rituals, role-playing games, and communities (both online and off) of the culture she’s exploring. ![]() ![]() What develops, however, through meticulously recounted conversations with people deeply entrenched in the vamp scene and through a heavy dose of Ramsland’s own philosophical musings about these encounters, is a voyeuristic ogling of an alternative -and at times morally deviant- culture and the author’s realization of her own almost perverse infatuation with it. It’s not clear whether Ramsland had any specific focus when she began her study other than solving the Walsh mystery and indulging her own romantic fascination with vampire legends. Spurred on by her own longtime fascination with vampire fiction and the mysterious disappearance of vampire cult investigator Susan Walsh in 1996, Ramsland began her own probe into the various forms of the vampire lifestyle. Anne Rice biographer Ramsland immerses herself in the underground society of vampires (from role-players to actual blood-drinkers) in order to form some general theories about vampire culture. ![]()
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