The Vampire Tarot by Robert M. Place is based on the story of Dracula by Bram Stoker. It is published by St. Martin’s Press. The Strength illustration from this deck appeared in the third episode of the 2008 season of the television series “Moonlight.” The illustrations for the Brides, the Lovers, Death, and the Moon will appear in a documentary about vampires on Animal Planet, in October, 2009.

The art for the deck is complete and may be purchased as prints for $25 each. Follow the link below to find a selection of thirteen of the trumps and four pips. The details for purchasing are at the bottom of the following page.

The Vampire Tarot

(Also, Wine.Woot.com’s Vampire Vinyard 3-pack has been extended another day! See the post below this one for details/link)

http://wine.woot.com is featuring a 3-pack from Vampire Vinyards for $44.99. This deal is only good today (Wednesday, October 21).

The November 2009 issue of Chicago Magazine features a spotlight on vampires, featuring ChicagoVampire.com’s own Chad Savage and noted Chicago vampirologist Martin V. Riccardo.

This spread ran in the November 2009 issue of Chicago Magazine

Nothing stimulates a bright young mind like a trip studying abroad. Within a top-notch program, students can immerse themselves in a new language, explore a new culture, make new friends, and truly mature as a result.

Unfortunately, that program rejected this bunch.

In “Transylmania,” a motley group of college students embarks on the wildest, sexiest, most outrageous semester abroad ever at Razvan University. Located deep in the heart of the “cursed land” of Transylvania in a centuries-old castle, Razvan isn’t your typical institution of higher learning – and the black leather-clad professors, three-foot-tall dean, instruction in crucifix-wielding, and topless vampiresses lurking in dark corners are just the start. It seems Castle Razvan was home to a band of vampires led by the feared Vampire King Radu during the dark ages.

Sure, classes like Garlic Growing 101, Advanced Wooden Stake Whittling and Crossbow for Dummies gave our gang pause – but the extracurricular activities at Razvan rock, and these students are fitting right in. Rusty is preparing to meet his oversexed Romanian Internet girlfriend, Draguta, and stoners Pete and Wang are successfully “avoiding stress” and searching for the ultimate high with sexy fellow student Danni – who’s still trying to get her identical twin sister Lia to loosen up a little. Newmar and Lynne are spicing up their love life, and Cliff is embarking on a new vocation as a vampire slayer – if he doesn’t slay himself first.

But when Newmar gives Lynne an ancient music box and she mistakenly unleashes a centuries-old curse, these students find themselves locked in an epic battle between the unwitting and the undead. Radu – who bears an uncanny resemblance to Rusty – has a score to settle.

Meanwhile, Draguta’s father has concocted a dastardly plan to create an attractive new body for his hunchbacked daughter in a secret lab, and he’s got his eye on Lia.

A bubbling cauldron of off-the-wall horror spoof, vampire action-adventure, and naughty college comedy, “Transylmania” culminates in a side-splitting climax that just might leave our bumbling heroes not Euro-trashed, but Euro-slashed.