The Vampyre Library: Who is the Keeper of the Library

Good evening, Nightkind, thank you for joining me in my library. Who am I? Depending on who you ask, that is either way more or way less interesting than what I’m doing, but that’s not up to me to decide!

I’m V.S. Nightborn-Corvinae. The Mobtown Halo is my home. I am a vampyre (both a sanguivore & a psychic vampire) and Baobhan Sith. I first began awakening in 2003, and I found my way to the Online Vampire Community in 2005 by way of a documentary on A&E. That documentary featured many groups, resources, and community members so I quickly began a deep dive online, reading everything I could get my hands on. That experience, and the abundance of resources I found along the way were incredibly formative for me.

The VC has gone through a fair amount of ebb and flow in my time, and I am doing what I can to document and preserve our history. I am a member of House Omnia Corvus as well as Magistra and Historian for the Mobtown Halo and The Vampyre Coven. I didn’t used to think I had anything valuable to offer the broader community until I realized I had first hand memories of things newer folks have never even heard of  I’ve witnessed much happening in real time even if I wasn’t super active in the moment. It might be the nerd in me, but being able to say I participated in VEWRS/AVEWRS* is pretty amazing in hindsight. Not to mention that I’ve been active in the online community since the year the Atlanta Vampire Alliance was founded. When less and less folk speak the history, those who remember become more valuable and have more obligation to share what they know. It’s time for me to share what I have gathered over the last 20 years.

In late 2021, I found myself needing some information relevant to the vampire community and when I went to pull up some of the websites I used to frequent, I found that so many of them have gone offline or have been abandoned for a decade or more. I was in need of information and my usual online haunts were inaccessible. I reached into my book shelf and was able to pull out a couple of books I bought when I first came up, and thankfully got what I needed, but the experience really shook me. I started to look into some of the other books I was aware of and many of them were long out of print or difficult or expensive to acquire, many others were more obscure and I likely wouldn’t have been able to find them if I hadn’t already known to look for them. Thankfully, I was also surprised by works that didn’t exist when I was younger, but the sense of loss still struck me. So I set out to acquire and catalogue what I could, maybe even with the goal of having enough copies of things one day to lend some out to folks in need of resources. Thus the Library was born.

My primary work here is the presentation of resources for vampires and non vampires alike to further research into vampirism and the vampire culture, but I also document sociocultural and historically significant events in the VC. It is very important to me that our history and culture is not lost. We are aging & our culture is aging with us. If I have anything to say about it, it won’t die with us as well.

🩸V.S. Nightborn-Corvinae🩸
🗝️Keeper of the Library🗝️

*The Vampirism & Energy Work Research Study/Advanced Vampirism & Energy Work Research Study was an extremely thorough sociological research survey of the real vampire community conducted by Suscitatio Enterprises, LLC from 2006-2009