Carpe Jugulum (1998)
Carpe Jugulum is a 1998 fiction book written by Terry Pratchett.
The Magpyrs are a thoroughly modern family of vampires. They wear bright colours, sip wine, and train themselves against garlic and holy symbols until the old superstitions feel embarrassingly quaint. Invited to a royal christening in the small kingdom of Lancre, they decide the place would make a comfortable feeding estate and simply move in. Standing against them are Granny Weatherwax, most dangerous when she doubts herself, and Nanny Ogg, the opera-trained Agnes Nitt, and a nervous young priest called Mightily Oats. Terry Pratchett turns the whole vampire canon inside out and lands some sharp things about faith along the way.
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The Magpyrs are a thoroughly modern family of vampires. They wear bright colours, sip wine, and train themselves against garlic and holy symbols until the old superstitions feel embarrassingly quaint. Invited to a royal christening in the small kingdom of Lancre, they decide the place would make a comfortable feeding estate and simply move in. Standing against them are Granny Weatherwax, most dangerous when she doubts herself, and Nanny Ogg, the opera-trained Agnes Nitt, and a nervous young priest called Mightily Oats. Terry Pratchett turns the whole vampire canon inside out and lands some sharp things about faith along the way.
When was Carpe Jugulum published?
Carpe Jugulum was published in 1998.
Who made Carpe Jugulum?
Carpe Jugulum was written by Terry Pratchett.
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For vampires played firmly against type, What We Do in the Shadows finds the same comedy in immortal creatures bickering over chores and etiquette. Castlevania offers the gothic version with real teeth and a besieged countryside. And Buffy the Vampire Slayer shares Pratchett's trick of folding genuine feeling and real stakes inside the monster jokes.