"Night Neighbors" - FOX News Channel Hannity's America w/Michelle Belanger & Anshar Seraphim - December 7, 2008 Members Of America's Vampire Subculture Could Be Living Right Under Your Nose http://www.foxnews.com/hannitysamerica
Bizarre Magazine - Halloween 2008 Special Edition - Psychic Vampirism
TAPS - October 2007 Halloween Special Edition: Interview With Merticus - [Click Image Above To Read]
"Would The Real Vampires Please Stand Up?" Paranormal Insider - Blog Contributed By Michelle Belanger - September 2007
Is vampirism a condition that exists outside of folklore and film? Are there real living people who psychically feed on human life force — or even on blood? What is the source of these supernatural hungers? The Atlanta Vampire Alliance has the answers. Formed in 2005, the AVA is a research group devoted to the modern condition of vampirism — but Dracula would never recognize these vampires as kin. The vampires of the AVA are living human beings, often psychic, who have a need for the life force of others, and they have come together as a group to study and better understand that need.
This is no fly-by-night venture. The AVA's Vampire and Energy Work Research Survey (Suscitatio Enterprises, LLC - http://www.suscitatio.com), circulated to thousands of self-identified vampires and energy workers around the world, has hundreds of questions, focusing on everything from an individual's religious beliefs to the minute details of their medical history. The AVA's goal is to gather hard statistics about real vampires — statistics which they hope will ultimately be taken seriously in an academic context. Part of this goal has already been achieved. Featured in the recent book, Vampires in Their Own Words, the AVA has also worked with several individuals attached to colleges as part of academic research. Most recently, they have started working with author and fellow Paranormal Insider blogger Rosemary Ellen Guiley to help add their knowledge to the future re-release of her landmark work, Vampires Among Us. The ongoing research of the AVA may very well change the way vampirism is defined.
"Vampires In Their Own Words: An Anthology of Vampire Voices" Edited By Michelle Belanger Llewellyn Publications - September 1, 2007 ISBN: 0738712205
"Revelations" by Kiera of House AVA; Pages 30-35 "Accepting Our Differences, Revealing Our Natures" by Eclecta; Pages 109-112 "Finding A Path In The South" by Eclecta of House AVA; Pages 192-199 "Atlanta Vampire Alliance: Initiating Serious Studies"; Pages 200-201
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"Vampires Today: The Truth about Modern Vampirism" Joseph Laycock - An independent scholar & recipient of a grant from the Pluralism Project Praeger Publishers - May 30, 2009 http://www.abc-clio.com/products/overview.aspx?productid=111080 ISBN: 0-313-36472-9 Vampires are not
just the stuff of folklore and fiction. This book explores the modern
world of vampirism in all its variety. Based upon extensive interviews
with members of the Atlanta Vampire Alliance and others within vampire
communities throughout the United States, Vampires Today looks at the many expressions of vampirism...
"Gathering Data with the Vampire: Analyzing Causes and Effects of an Introspective Survey by the Vampire Community" Annual Conference of American Academy of Religion, November 17, 2007 Joe Laycock, MTS Harvard Divinity School http://www.aarweb.org
San Diego, CA - AAR 2007 Conference
Academic & Scholarly Citations:
Vampires Today: The Truth About Modern Vampirism Joseph Laycock, MTS Harvard Divinity School & Doctoral Candidate - Boston University Praeger
Publishers (2009); Pages 7-8, 13-14, 18, 26, 33, 34, 37-38, 60-61,
67-68, 82, 84, 106-07, 110, 118, 121-122, 125, 133-34, 138-42, 145,
158, & 161-63
Contemporary Vampires and (Blood-Red) Leisure: Should We Be Afraid of the Dark? DJ Williams, LCSW, PhD - Idaho State University Leisure/Loisir - Volume 32 (2) (2008); Pages 513-539
“Predatory Spirituality:” Vampire Religion In America David and Kiara Falk of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School Sacred Tribes Journal - Volume 3 Number 2 (2008); Pages 102-131
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