Jesse Kimmel-Freeman

I know a lot about sleep paralysis because of its association with vampires. I’d say they were but there’s no timeline connection. My brother didn’t even know the neighbor. And my mom and brother never got along well enough to pull something off like that. It was just so strange. There are YEARS between people even mentioning it. The neighbor was when I was about 5ish, my mom was in my early teens and my brother was in my late teens. My brother wasn’t really around when I was young. So I can’t say it was a team up.

Yep! Even put it in the book. So creepy. The night I typed it up, I swear my ears were straining to hear if anything was dripping in the house!

I actually made similar points when I wrote about modern Vampire culture during my Masters work. It was really important for people to think about not the possibility of whether or not they could exist because they obviously do exist, but to think about what draws people into these beliefs. There is such an allure of vampires in our culture, especially pop, that the underlying symbolism can’t be totally ignored. What kind of guest post on vampirism were you thinking about? It’s been a few years since I’ve actively studied anything written about vampirism and same goes for actually hanging out when any modern vampires. But the romanticism in film (i.e. Universal’s Dracula, Blade, etc.) , TV (True Blood, Dracula, etc.), and what’s been portrayed in the culture itself is something that shouldn’t be denied. Where does your name come from “Black Orange”?