Stoker And Rice's Books About Vampires

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without them
even noticing and as a bat he can cover more ground in a shorter amount of time.
Rice's novels mention nothing of being able to morph into a bat, mist or
anything else for that matter.
The ability to fly is used in each novel but they are used very
differently. In Dracula the count can fly but, in order to do this he must
turn into a bat and fly as a bat would fly. More powerful vampires in The
Vampire Chronicles can fly as , for example, super man would fly. In order for
a vampire to fly it requires lots of energy and a great force of will Lestat
says � It was as if a current of air had caught me. I went up hundereds of feet
in one instant, and then the clouds were below me-a white light that I could
scarcely see. I decided to drift.� (Rice, Queen of the damned 286)
Mental powers are used extensivly in both of the authors' creations.
Mind reading is common in The Vampire Chronicles. Vampires in the Chronicles can
not read the minds of vampires ...

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Rice, because she wrote an entire series of novels not just
one, has more space to descibe the indivdual abilities of the main vampires in
her series. Stoker on the other hand wrote only one book about Dracula therfore
his chacter is described in less detail than are Rices.
The vampires way of life, unlike special abilities, is a great source of
conflict. The modern age Anne Rice and the classic old english Bram Stoker have
different views on the settings, travel, contact with people and other vampires,
and the way the vampires feel and express emotions in their novels.
What comes to your mind when you think of the words �vampire country�?
If you thought of castles in ...

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