The Genre Pool is Getting Packed...How is LKH Coping?

[hooks-pet-otter.livejournal.com]

With the recent surge in horror/paranormal romance books and series coming out the yang this past year, one has to wonder how Laurell feels about not being the only queen in town. Especially with the emminant filming and release of Stephenie Meyers' Twilight series-based movie. Along with that, Tanya Huff's Blood Ties success, CBS's Moonlight and the slow but sure hostile takeover(in the literary world) of JR Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood. The latter being a much better example of erotica than Hamilton's. Ward uses spell-check and doesn't repeat "hot, wet, and tight" over and over until my eyeballs are "hot, wet, and tight".

I haven't been able to find anything on LKH's reaction and feelings. At least, nothing that resembles the great "Underworld" meltdown.

Has anyone witnessed to the contrary? Or is the Queen of All That Sucks actually staying mum for once on her precarious situation?

Comments

[moonsinger.livejournal.com]

Tanya Huff and Mercedes Lackey were way before LKH and if we really want to be picky Dracula was written in the 19th century.

She isn't the progenitor, the best, or believe it or not the worst.

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

Heck, John Polidori was first with The Vampyre.

And Carmilla was all about the hot vampire sexxxxing.

[moonsinger.livejournal.com]

I think I have vaguely heard of that book before, but I've never read it.

[easol.livejournal.com]

Hot GHEY vampire sexxxxxxing.

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

Bi vampire sexxxxxing, if I recall correctly. Carmilla sexes up the young girl protagonist and also some random men.

It's really not a bad book if you can get past the purple prose of the era. It certainly stands up well in comparison to the TIGHT AND WET skank of St. Louis.

[brandiweed.livejournal.com]

Well, the only "onscreen" (as it were) seduction is that of the female narrator by Carmilla, but that's probably because she's the one telling the story. Notably, the only other successful attack by Carmilla we hear about is also upon another young woman.

"La morte amoureuse," aka "Clarimonde" (1836) by Theophile Gautier is considered one of the earliest female vampire stories. It's not bad either, though even more florid than Carmilla prosewise.

[easol.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I gotta check that out.

[x-trickster-x.livejournal.com]

FINALLY! Thank you for mentioning The Vampyre, it's one of my favourites. =D

[ladymuttly1.livejournal.com]

I've got to toss in Varney the Vampire if only for amusements sake. I think I love Varney because of his name