She personalizes it through a steady, honest sounding of her own responses to those she encounters (""the enticing feel of the experience that could seduce me toward my own destruction-and surrender to it utterly""). She paces it, in part, through her ever-closer encounters-through e-mail, phone, then in person-with a vampire known as Wraith. She frames it through her quest to find out what happened to a reporter who'd disappeared while investigating Manhattan's vampire cults. Ramsland relates her adventures among the vampires with a novelist's flair and skill. Should she observe it with scientific detachment or immerse herself in its netherland? No stranger to the outre due to her research for books including Prism of the Night, her acclaimed bio of Anne Rice, Ramsland chose the latter path-a wise choice, judging by this immensely insightful and exciting report on her journey into darkness. In 1996, when Ramsland (Dean Koontz: A Writer's Biography) decided to explore vampire culture, she faced a crucial choice.
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