Bite Me

The Journal of the Vampire and It’s Kin

Issue #20

If you like vampires, the supernatural and things that go bump in the night, Bite me is the magazine for you. The first thing that hits you when you see Bite Me is its mixture of a high aesthetic style with solid content. It looks great and has a sensuous feel of the dark and gothic. It also offers the highest quality printing, beautiful photography, scrumptious colours and stunning covers. At the same time it is not one of these magazines which is all “style over substance”, it is literally packed with features as well as regular sections and reviews.

In Issue 20, for example, there is a marvellous article on Mistaken Dracula’s which rather than focusing on the great cinema bloodsuckers, shows us the worst ! This is followed by a very well researched article on the Arab horse and its relation to the Celestial Horse of legend. Then there is a short but reflective article on the struggle of New Orleans to get back on its feet after the disaster of Katrina.

Page 20 moves to a more visual presentation with a beautiful Vamp Gallery followed by a feature on the world’s only Gothic Lolita band, RazorBladeKisses. (There is lots of visual treats throughout the magazine as well !)

This is following by some features of a more paranormal bent including one where some Canadian ghost hunters spend the night in the Edinburgh Vaults, the most haunted place in Britain.

There is a lot more including Gothic fiction, an interview and art feature on Anne Sudworth, news items, reviews and even a nice article on dark dolls and puppets.

Critically examining Bite Me I find it balances the dark and the erotic, style with substance, vampires with other dark trends. Interviews news and general information are carefully integrated with insightful but highly entertaining feature articles. There is advertising but it does not overpower the magazine and is relevant. Bite Me is a close to perfect dark magazine !

There is lots of good stuff at the website too, so make sure you visit…

Web: http://www.bitememagazine.com/

This review will appear in Volume 2 No.3 (2009) of the digital and print edition of Synergy Magazine.

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