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Usually when we say "vampire, " we're talking about a monster like Dracula -- a thing that sucks the life's blood out of us, literally. But there are other things than blood that matter to a body . . . when lonely Ernest Fielding is taken under the wing of Reginald Clarke, he only knows that he will be mentored by one of the greatest writers of his generation. As he spends more and more time with Reginald, he realizes that he starts to feel le...

The novel that may have started the psychic vampire phenomenon, the story follows a young woman as a mysterious man is involved in her life who is eventually revealed to be feeding off her psychic energy to survive the long stresses of undead life.

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Excerpt from Songs of Armageddon: And Other PoemsFree from Great Britain's golden thrall, From guillotine and anarchy, From pogroms red and whips that fall.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the or...

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Excerpt from Debate Between George Sylvester Viereck and Cecil Chesterton on Whether the Cause of Germany or That of the Allied Powers Is Just Mr. Viereck represents the German side and is equally well known as a competent authority on the question which is under debate to-night. He is well known as an author and as the editor of The Fatherland. The speakers will each occupy half an hour expounding their views and will then have an opportuni...

Excerpt from The House of the VampireThe freakish little leader of the orches tra, newly imported from Sicily to New York, tossed his conductor's wand excitedly through the air, drowning With musical thunders the hum of conversation and the clatter of plates.Yet neither his apish demeanour nor the deafening noises that responded to every movement of his agile body detracted atten tion from the figure of Reginald Clarke and the young man at his...

Excerpt from The Candle and the Flame: Poems Spiders, the mind is diverted from the poem to the form, and the artistic method defeats the artistic aim. In this book I have placed lines that rhyme under each other, wherever this was possible with out injuring the architectonic structure. I am per fectly willing to sacrifice logic to effectiveness in art. Poetry has its architecture as well as its music. The free stanza which I consistently em ...

Excerpt from Roosevelt: A Study in AmbivalenceNot even be mentioned. My psycho analytic interpretation oi Colonel Roosevelt contains much that is startling. It adds to the portrait of Theo dore Roosevelt a line here and there that cannot be erased by. The relentless years, nor by their relenting historians. There is no question that I understand Theo dore Roosevelt. On that point I have Mr. Roosevelt's own testimony. Nor is there any doubt tha...

Excerpt from A Game at Love: And Other Plays I have taken the climacteric moments of imagi nary novels and have embodied them in dramatic sketches. This method constitutes a rebellion against that species of psychological fiction which, in six hundred pages, succeeds in telling us no thing. For as intellectual intercourse between na tions becomes more intimate, and the body of lit erature of each country is augmented by that of the others, it...

Excerpt from Confessions of a Barbarian This book reveals America to herself by interpreting Europe. I stand in symbolic relation, so to speak, to both hemispheres. My twofold racial consciousness serving as a fulcrum, I am enabled to pry two worlds - Archimedes aspired to lift but one - out of the furrow of their mutual misconception. I have seen the soul of the subtle siren Europe. I have chronicled facts from her unwritten history, from t...