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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