#44000 - 11/05/10 12:21 AM
Re: What are you reading right now?
[Re: PrinceOfBabalon]
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Michael A.Aquino
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Registered: 09/28/08
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For pleasure: The Vampire by Ornella Volta. Haven't seen old O.V. pop up in some time ... Here's the Temple of Set Reading List #8C entry, with its #8A reference included:
8A. The Vampire Papers by Bernhardt J. Hurwood (Original title: Terror by Night, later released as The Monstrous Undead). NY: Pinnacle Books #523-00975-5, 1976. (TOS-3) MA: “Unlike the werewolf or vampire sections of most occult anthologies, this book focuses directly on the sexual and psychopathic bases of both archetypes. Other sections dealing with necrophilia, cannibalism, blood rituals, and premature burial have made this one of the books least likely to be kept in stock at your neighborhood bookstore. A short but informative bibliography is appended. [See also #8I.] Books dealing exclusively with subjects such as necrophilia [sample title: The Love of the Dead (!)] were evaluated for this reading list but rejected as being mere attempts to pander to degenerate and morbid tastes. #8A relates such themes to the more significant precepts addressed by this reading list category.” 8C. The Vampire by Ornella Volta. NY: Award Books #A807S-MAC, 1962. (TOS-4) MA: “Only slightly less gory than #8A, this book explores various psychological implications of vampirism and proceeds to case studies. Again the nature of its contents makes it unlikely that this book will be easily located.” Bernhardt Hurwood is pretty creepy: Go to Amazon and do a book search for his name and you'll see what I mean. [Then in the middle of all that stuff he does a book on Burt Reynolds?]
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Michael A. Aquino
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