It's episode 219 and time for us to talk about the genre(?) of Vampires! We discuss the difference between thralls and familiars, why vampires love math, whether it's possible to not read vampire stories, how much blood is too much blood, vegetarian vampires, books that mysteriously show up on our holds lists, and more!

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In this episode

Anna Ferri | Meghan Whyte | Matthew Murray 🦇 | Jam Edwards

Things We Read (or tried to…)

• Of Monsters and Mainframes by Barbara Truelove
• The Sweetness Between Us by Sarah Winifred Searle
• Jam's review on Storygraph
• Hunger's Bite by Taylor Robin
• Ex.Mag, vol. 05: Bloodsucker
• Fawn's Blood by Hal Schrieve
• Meghan's books
  • Twilight by Stephanie Meyer (498pg)
  • Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler (336pg)
  • Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons (767pg)
  • The Informers by Brett Easton Ellis (240pg)
  • Quicksilver by Callie Hart (624pg)
  • The Passage by Justin Cronin (784pg)

Other Media We Mentioned

• Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale of Mystery by Deborah Howe and James Howe
• What We Do in the Shadows
• Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris
• Murphy Brown
• Count Duckula
• Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
• 'Salem's Lot by Stephen King
• Silver, vol. 1 by Stephan Franck
• Life Sucks by Jessica Abel, Gabriel Soria, and Warren Pleece
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer (film)
• The Lost Boys
• The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez
• Red Sonja & Vampirella Meet Betty & Veronica, vol. 1 by Amy Chu and Maria Laura Sanapo
• Leviathan by Ian Edginton and D'Israeli
• The Last Express
  • Murder On The Rotoscoped Express | The Last Express by Dungeon Chill
• Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman
• Not A Drop To Drink - Session 0 - Vancouver Island By Night || Dice Friends
• Vampire: The Masquerade
• Makt Myrkranna (Powers of Darkness) (Icelandic "translation" of Dracula)
• Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Links, Articles, and Things

• Renfrew–Collingwood
• Renfrew station
• Renfield
• The Living and the Dead: Morbius the Living Vampire, the Comics Code, & Marvel Comics' Horror Boom
• Jiangshi
• Count von Count
• Mercy Brown vampire incident
• Vampire Child (TV Tropes)
• War Rocket Ajax Episode 613 - Every Dracula Ever f/ Benito Cereno and Elle Collins
• Vampirella
• Maila Nurmi (Vampira)
• Cassandra Peterson (Elvira)

20 Vampire Fiction Books by BIPOC Authors:

Every month Book Club for Masochists: A Readers' Advisory Podcast chooses a genre at random and we read and discuss books from that genre. We also put together book lists for each episode/genre that feature works by BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, & People of Colour) authors. All of the lists can be found here.

• The Dangerous Ones by Lauren Blackwood
• Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler
• Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas
• Vampire Weekend by Mike Chen
• The Midnight Shift by Cheon Seon-Ran, translated by Gene Png
• Carmilla: The First Vampire by Amy Chu and Soo Lee
• Silver Under Nightfall by Rin Chupeco
• Now Comes the Mist by Julie C. Dao
• A Tempest of Tea by Hafsah Faizal
• The Vampire Skeleton by Sara General
• Immortal Dark by Tigest Girma
• The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez
• Sign of the Slayer by Sharina Harris
• House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson
• The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
• Woman, Eating by Claire Kohda
• A Cruel Thirst by Angela Montoya
• Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
• Blood Slaves by Markus Redmond
• The Night Wanderer by Drew Hayden Taylor

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Then on Tuesday, November 4th we'll be talking about the genre of Epic and High Fantasy!