Vampyre, not Vampire.

Some of them drink the blood of humans.

A bizarre and fascinating offshoot of the Goth subculture, Vampyres (as opposed to Vampires) are a loosely tied group of both late adolescents and adults that fashion themselves to be vampiric in one sense or another: whether they’re modeling themselves after the vampires of pop-fiction writer Anne Rice or the classic blood-suckers found in Bram Stoker’s Dracula, those who call themselves Vampyres all have a few traits in common.

Above all else is the fixation on blood: whether they drink it or use it to initiate new members, all who fashion themselves Vampyres share the sanguine obsession. Fashion is a close second; attire is dominated by Victorian style clothing and macabre jewelry. A melancholy countenance is the salt on the rim of the Vampyre-cocktail.

With offshoots ranging from the psychics of the Kephrian Order to the pagans of the Coven of Sahjaza, the differences between those who follow the Vampyre lifestyle are almost more numerous than that which ties them together.

There's no denying that the Vampyre lifestyle is becoming for this generation what the Goth movement was for those of the 80s and 90s.


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