You're in the Paracast, the gold standard of paranormal radio.

And now, here's Gene Steinberg.

Now, in recent weeks on the Paracast, we've covered a variety of subjects.

I know a lot of people think

we emphasize UFOs a little bit too much, and I like to point out that we try to get to other

subjects, and I'm going to hit one now that we haven't gone into for a really, really, really long time.

And that's vampires. So, who's an expert on vampires? We got to notice here

about a new book, actually a fiction book, but it's supposedly based on fact, about vampires called

The Silently Series. And the author is Douglas Robinson, who is described as an

expert on vampires and an educator. Now, Douglas, welcome to the power cast, but let me ask you

the first question. An educator being a teacher? Well, I was a teacher, but I really consider myself mainly a writer.

So how did you get interested in the subject of vampires?

Even from a very young age, I had them on my heart and my mind from a very young age.

You know, my own past has a lot of blood in it.

A lot of blood in your path? How so? Well, like, for instance, when I was about seven or eight,

I started dreaming of myself dying. But to make a long story short, I just really kind of know what I know about them

because I thought about them for so long, prayed for them for so long, and I'm aware of

things, let's say, that way about them.

In 1983, when I was taking a little fiction writing class at UAB, I started seeing,

and sort of put that in quotes, seeing.

That means it sort of plays like a movie in my head.

And during that fiction writing class, you write two little short stories.

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