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From Nightfall to Daybreak
From Nightfall to Daybreak:
An overnight course on the art of female seduction by a vampire

A Foreplay
Like in sex, you only get to know your partner after the deed. When your hearts have fraternized into a gory pool of love making, your bodies enveloped in zealous contemplation, and your souls journeyed into orgasmic crossfires in the sky... This nightfall you shall have sex with a vampire. And I guarantee you by daybreak, you won’t think of them the same way ever again.
This is the foreplay. Think of what you know about vampires. Possibly a “reanimated body of a dead person believed to come from the grave at night and suck the blood of persons asleep.” 1 Now forget this, and prepare to be aroused, because it’s time to strip down and bare the true vampire.

The Stare: A look back at the beginnings of the vampire Dracula in literature Every flirtation begins with the stare... So let’s take sight of our dear vampire. Here’s a picture: you’re in a bar and you see a few meters away from you a tall man, clean-shaven save for a long white mustache and clad in black from head to foot without a single speck of color around him anywhere. His mustache is thick and heavy, his skin pale and sullen. (Stoker, ) Behold, staring back at you is the most enduring vampire icon in history: Count Dracula.
Raymond T. McNally particularly devoted his life’s work on discovering the true identity of Dracula in his novel In Search of Dracula: A True History of Dracula and Vampire Legends. Upon discerning that almost all Dracula films are set in Transylvania, he set out his research in the Hungarian province and eventually discovered the dual history of the Wallachian ruler named Vlad “The Impaler” Tepes and Bram Stoker’s horrifying vampire hero. Vlad the Impaler is well known for his methods of torture. Impalement, as his favorite, involves a strong horse being harnessed to each leg of the victim, while the stake was being carefully introduced, so as not to kill

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