Vampires appear throughout Stephen King's fictional multiverse. They appear in the novels Salem's Lot, Wolves of the Calla, Song of Susannah, and The Dark Tower; the short stories "One for the Road", "The Night Flier", "Popsy", and "The Little Sisters of Eluria"; and are mentioned in a number of other stories. Marvel Comics' The Dark Tower: End-World Almanac includes a detailed entry on their categorization.
Classification
The majority of vampires that exist in King's multiverse consist of a standard type. These standard vampires exist in at least three facets of King's multiverse: All-World; the fictional setting of Salem's Lot and works related to it; and the "real" world.
All three types of vampires drink blood to survive. While they are immune to blood-borne diseases, they can pass them on to their victims. Due to this, in King's multiverse vampires were instrumental in causing the AIDS pandemic in the 1980s.
Most also seem to require being "invited" into a particular area or building by the proper "owner" of the territory. Once invited, they seem to be able to come and go as they please, even if their invitation is verbally revoked.
Type Ones
Type One vampires are "lesser demons", the last remnants of the Prim (magical beings who predated creation and dissolved when Gan made the multiverse). Although humanoid in shape, they are extremely deformed, with an emaciated appearance; enormous, inch-long teeth that force their mouths open; and large amounts of tumors, body hair, and other physical defects. Their bodies are adapted for the seeking and consuming of blood: their noses are attuned to smell even traces of blood from long distances, their teeth are built for piercing skin and draining blood, their stomachs can expand to hold as much as half their body weight in blood, and their tongue is long and prehensile, and can produce anticoagulants to apply to bites on victims.
Type Ones have lifespans of thousands of years, and can hibernate for hundreds of years. They also are surrounded by blue or indigo auras. These represent their life energy, and when the aura goes out, Type Ones almost immediately putrefy into stinking yellow puddles. Type Ones are vulnerable to faith, and can be driven away or even killed by someone with sufficient belief wielding an object of faith such as a cross, which cause them to burst into flame.
Type Threes
Type Three vampires are humans who have been bitten by a Type Two vampire. Type Threes can pass as normal humans, as they are able to move in sunlight, survive off of normal food instead of solely blood, and have a higher degree of intelligence and personality than Type Twos. In addition, their bites contain an enzyme that causes temporary memory loss and disorientation in their victims, allowing them more leeway in feeding. However, Type Threes cannot pass along vampirism to those they bite. Type Threes also generate a faint version of the Type One aura, along with a smell such as burnt onions or hot metal, which those with psychic powers can detect.
In The Dark Tower, the existence of "psychic vampires" is revealed, who feed on emotions as opposed to blood, can change shape, and can mask their surroundings via a glamour.
Examples
Kurt Barlow
Kurt Barlow is a Type One vampire who terrorizes the town of , Maine, before being killed by Ben Mears and Mark Petrie. In the notes to Nightmares & Dreamscapes, King states that the Night Flier is possibly also the titular character of his story "Popsy", who rescues a possibly-vampiric child from an abductor.
Classification
The majority of vampires that exist in King's multiverse consist of a standard type. These standard vampires exist in at least three facets of King's multiverse: All-World; the fictional setting of Salem's Lot and works related to it; and the "real" world.
All three types of vampires drink blood to survive. While they are immune to blood-borne diseases, they can pass them on to their victims. Due to this, in King's multiverse vampires were instrumental in causing the AIDS pandemic in the 1980s.
Most also seem to require being "invited" into a particular area or building by the proper "owner" of the territory. Once invited, they seem to be able to come and go as they please, even if their invitation is verbally revoked.
Type Ones
Type One vampires are "lesser demons", the last remnants of the Prim (magical beings who predated creation and dissolved when Gan made the multiverse). Although humanoid in shape, they are extremely deformed, with an emaciated appearance; enormous, inch-long teeth that force their mouths open; and large amounts of tumors, body hair, and other physical defects. Their bodies are adapted for the seeking and consuming of blood: their noses are attuned to smell even traces of blood from long distances, their teeth are built for piercing skin and draining blood, their stomachs can expand to hold as much as half their body weight in blood, and their tongue is long and prehensile, and can produce anticoagulants to apply to bites on victims.
Type Ones have lifespans of thousands of years, and can hibernate for hundreds of years. They also are surrounded by blue or indigo auras. These represent their life energy, and when the aura goes out, Type Ones almost immediately putrefy into stinking yellow puddles. Type Ones are vulnerable to faith, and can be driven away or even killed by someone with sufficient belief wielding an object of faith such as a cross, which cause them to burst into flame.
Type Threes
Type Three vampires are humans who have been bitten by a Type Two vampire. Type Threes can pass as normal humans, as they are able to move in sunlight, survive off of normal food instead of solely blood, and have a higher degree of intelligence and personality than Type Twos. In addition, their bites contain an enzyme that causes temporary memory loss and disorientation in their victims, allowing them more leeway in feeding. However, Type Threes cannot pass along vampirism to those they bite. Type Threes also generate a faint version of the Type One aura, along with a smell such as burnt onions or hot metal, which those with psychic powers can detect.
In The Dark Tower, the existence of "psychic vampires" is revealed, who feed on emotions as opposed to blood, can change shape, and can mask their surroundings via a glamour.
Examples
Kurt Barlow
Kurt Barlow is a Type One vampire who terrorizes the town of , Maine, before being killed by Ben Mears and Mark Petrie. In the notes to Nightmares & Dreamscapes, King states that the Night Flier is possibly also the titular character of his story "Popsy", who rescues a possibly-vampiric child from an abductor.
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Gilliam graduated from Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley, California, in 1968. He then studied acting at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. He received Masters of Arts in performing arts, from the University of Winchester, and in screenwriting, from the University of Bournemouth. He is married to Greek actress Elvira Poulianou. They now teach Yoga in the New Forest .
He recently appeared in the Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire as Clarke in 2008, and as George in UK comedy-horror Severance in 2006.
He has also had parts in The Eagle Has Landed which featured Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland, Robert Duvall, and Jenny Agutter, Sharks' Treasure, , and 1972 cult-classic .
In 2000, New Justice Films was established in Christchurch to develop film and television productions written by Gilliam.
Gilliam has two Children one of them Dr of Philosophy Christian Gilliam (his youngest son) and Gilliam has two Grandson’s from his oldest son
Filmography
*Dirty Harry (1971) as Alice (uncredited)
Gilliam graduated from Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley, California, in 1968. He then studied acting at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. He received Masters of Arts in performing arts, from the University of Winchester, and in screenwriting, from the University of Bournemouth. He is married to Greek actress Elvira Poulianou. They now teach Yoga in the New Forest .
He recently appeared in the Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire as Clarke in 2008, and as George in UK comedy-horror Severance in 2006.
He has also had parts in The Eagle Has Landed which featured Michael Caine, Donald Sutherland, Robert Duvall, and Jenny Agutter, Sharks' Treasure, , and 1972 cult-classic .
In 2000, New Justice Films was established in Christchurch to develop film and television productions written by Gilliam.
Gilliam has two Children one of them Dr of Philosophy Christian Gilliam (his youngest son) and Gilliam has two Grandson’s from his oldest son
Filmography
*Dirty Harry (1971) as Alice (uncredited)
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Early career
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Big data SEO
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Charity
Each year Reynolds sleeps outside during one of the coldest nights of the year to raise funds for Covenant House programs that support homeless children in Philadelphia.
Early career
Reynolds started his professional career as a high school economics teacher. But when the administration at his school refused to embrace technology that he wanted to use as teaching tools for his students, he left teaching altogether. He then started looking for new jobs involving technology and started in website management in 1999, at insurance brokerage company AON. He started Seer Interactive by knocking on doors in Philadelphia, where he eventually met a jewelry store owner who introduced him to PR business owner Peter Madden. Peter Madden became his first client and introduced Reynolds to many of the clients Seer Interactive would eventually serve.
Big data SEO
Reynolds has been an evangelist of big data SEO since 2017. He has spoken at multiple conferences on how SEO agencies and the companies they serve need to start using big data tools like Power BI and Tableau to marry SEO and PPC data in a way that delivers new insights. His team developed a tool called Saving Benjamin that reduced PPC investment on irrelevant search terms by looking at organic search data.
Charity
Each year Reynolds sleeps outside during one of the coldest nights of the year to raise funds for Covenant House programs that support homeless children in Philadelphia.
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He left Iran in 1965 for higher studies in Pakistan and England where he received his BS and CDA in agricultural engineering.
After the regime change in 1979 he was appointed by secretary of defense Admiral Dr Madani as a managing director of cancelled Brown and root "Marina Cove" Chah Bahar submarine base project. while in Sisitan and Baluchistan he was asked to act as governor of the state. Later he was sent to Abadan as Mayor of that city due to serious issues shaping up in that region. He left Iran in 1981 and is currently living in U.S.
He left Iran in 1965 for higher studies in Pakistan and England where he received his BS and CDA in agricultural engineering.
After the regime change in 1979 he was appointed by secretary of defense Admiral Dr Madani as a managing director of cancelled Brown and root "Marina Cove" Chah Bahar submarine base project. while in Sisitan and Baluchistan he was asked to act as governor of the state. Later he was sent to Abadan as Mayor of that city due to serious issues shaping up in that region. He left Iran in 1981 and is currently living in U.S.