A Dream, and Something More Believable

             One night of fantastic dreaming and a lifelong desire to see vampires portrayed in a more-realistic way spawned the Jacyn’s Journey series, the first literary effort from Steve Russell. The concept was pretty simple: create a vampire world that the reader could identify with, with believable characters and a breed of beings that could actually exist.

            Russell had always loved the tales of vampires, but found many of them to be too unrealistic, catering to archaic myths born of fear and exaggeration. Recorded history of concerns about the existence of vampires dates back nearly three hundred years, and history suggests that even ancient Greeks and Mesopotamians believed that vampires were real. In most manifestations, the ‘vampire’ has been portrayed as a ‘demonic’ entity, feared by the religious as creatures that were ‘in league with the devil’ and granted dark magic to wield over innocent, pious citizens. The tales of extraordinarily dangerous fiends have seen them assume gaseous or animal forms at will, control weather and time, manipulate their victims with charisma and supernatural abilities to control the thoughts of the unsuspecting over any distance, and to defy ordinary mortal death with otherworldly healing abilities, leaving them susceptible to only specific methods of extinction.

            The Russellian Vampire, as it has come to be known, is not nearly so implausible, but does manifest ‘superiorities’ to average humans that, with a tip of the hat to other writers of the genre, offer explanation for the bizarre and absurd claims made against vampires in most fiction. In the following paragraphs, the intent is to explain how the Russellian Vampire differs from the traditional vampires of literature, cinema, and legend.

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A Note About This Series

Every author has a distinct style and direction for his or her writing, often referred to as the writer's "voice." Steve Russell is using the Jacyn's Journey series to find and establish his "voice," and therefore each book in the series may have a slightly different "flavor" or "feel" than the preceding or succeeding installment.