vampires

Amusingly, as vampires are/were in fashion, both Stross and Watts have written books featuring nonstandard imaginative interpretations of vampires.

Strossian vampires are explainable in the context of Laundry-universe magic, and enjoy investment banking [1], and Scrum practices.

No, the Pillar Men are a prehistoric cousin-species that couldn't withstand UV light and ate both humans and ordinary vampires.

He immediately sank millions of dollars into producing a direct-to-video trilogy about vampires from space.

There are an awful lot of help vampires who are basically just looking for someone else to do their work for them.

More importantly, though their range of effectiveness seems to have expanded over the years, silver bullets are traditionally used against werewolves, not vampires.

Silver will harm vampires, but it will not be a one-shot kill.

There will also be plenty of fantasy novels, mostly dealing with vampires or with settings that Tolkien first created more than half a century ago.

For vampires you usually want to stake them through the heart.

I'm actually a fan of sci fi, BUT: I can't stand vampires, ghosts and family.

Next to vampires, no one hates the light as much as gamers; there’s nothing worse than a big, bad glare blinding down on a computer screen.

> Any advice from the vampires like that is a good sign you should be doing the polar opposite.

Not all comics involve dimension-hoping shapeshifting vampires from outer space out to destroy NY (and even some "regular" comics, like Frank Miller's Daredevil, have had some good plotting, art and character development).

Why should a real estate developer, and the whole horde of commissioned vampires that follow them, make 10x as much "over there" as "over here" when its the same product for the same people making mostly the same money at mostly the same jobs, just a different location?

Wattsian vampires are resurrected from the dead by human genetic engineering, and have an unfortunate flaw (well, unfortunate for them, fortunate for the humans who enslave them) - "the Crucifix glitch" - that cause them to go into seizures when they see right angles [2][3].