
Explore diverse tribes within the vampire world described in Black Veil's Master Vampire edition, and distinguish the vampire world from the vampire community, including ethic psychic vampires and energy vampires.
Explore fangdom, the diverse vampire fandom across generations—from A generation (Anne Rice) to T generation (Twilight and True Blood)—and crossovers, including Dark Shadows, shape the vampire world.
Explore how lifestylers manifest lifestyle vampirism as an aesthetic, cultural, and philosophical path in real world contexts that empower individuals beyond feeding.
Explore emotional vampires, or Aserai, who drain others' energy through negativity and drama, and learn to identify, heal, and protect yourself with therapy, relaxation, meditation, and ethical energy work.
Ethical psychic vampires consciously obtain subtle energy from consensual donors, such as prana, chi, or ki, to support mental, spiritual, and physical health, training to balance energy and avoid harm.
Discover how scholars, mainly non-vampires, become world experts on vampire mythology and culture through scholarly essays published in active journals, offering diverse yet rigorous perspectives.
Explore sanguinarians, who drink human blood, within safe, consensual relationships with donors tested for blood-borne diseases. Notice no nutritional benefit, acknowledge health risks and ethical, responsible practices.
Explore the Sabertooths, a vampire clan led by Father Sebastian and Johanna Moresco, detailing the rites of transformation, fangs, the current, and the family-like global community.
Define mundanes as normal people unfamiliar with the vampire subculture, and show how popular media, glamour, and 1995-era acceptance shaped mundane attitudes toward vampires.
Otherkin believe their souls resemble mythical beings like dragons or fairies, differ from Therians' real-world animal souls, and are often drawn to vampire culture as donors, with a seven-pointed-star symbol.
Explore therians, wolf-aligned individuals who relate to spirit animals, and understand that their shifting is emotional and behavioral, not physical, often contrasting with vampire lore.
Embrace the diverse expressions of the vampire archetype, from fangs to black swan, lifestyler, and role player, with an open mind toward vampire culture.
In the modern vampire community, there are many designations of people who relate to in whole or part with the archetype of the vampire. As a professional fangsmith and event coordinator for Endless Night Vampire Ball and a devotee in the fangdom of Anne Rice, I have had the opportunity to meet more people in person in the “modern vampire community” in person than anyone else alive today. I have been involved in the international vampire community since 1993 and the following are my personal classifications on the different types of vampires.
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Father Sebastiaan is an American fangsmith, published author and impresario. He is a former dental assistant working as a "fangsmith," crafting custom-made fangs for consumers. He is the founder of the Sabretooth Clan, a fangmaking business and social network for the vampire subculture, and has worked as an author and co-author of several books on the occult and the vampire subculture.
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Musician by day, fanged fatale by night! JoHanna Moresco participates in the vampire subculture, contributing creatively and performing with the Endless Nights Vampire Ball — the largest, oldest, and best known long-running event enjoyed by living vampires around the world.
As well as hosting, she frequently awards the “Best Dressed” vampire. JoHanna also teaches classes about vampirism, and the Black Veils — a spiritual and philosophical system practiced by many lifestyle vampires — as part of an on-line series of courses through Father Sebastiaan’s Vampire University.