Space! Vampires! Space vampires!
The not-quite-classic sci-fi novel “The Space Vampires” may soon become a TV show. The book was published in 1976 by Colin Wilson and once before made it to screen, as “Lifeforce” in 1985 (remember Patrick Stewart in that? Maybe not).
As you might expect, “The Space Vampires” features vampires from space. They wind up on Earth and consume the life force of humans with a deadly kiss.
Author Wilson was born in 1931 in England and has moved between science fiction and philosophy in his work, exploring the unusual while also writing serious biography. His books include “Religion and Rebel,” “Brandy of the Damned,” “Introduction to the New Existentialism,” “Poetry and Mysticism,” “The Occult,” “Starseekers,” “The Quest for Wilhelm Reich,” and “The Goblin Universe.”
“I had so much to say, I thought I wouldn’t be happy until I was 70 and had 50 books behind me,” he told the Fortean Times in 2004.
His interviewer, Gary Lachman, replied, “Well, you’re 73 and you’ve published twice that number, so you should be doubly happy.”
“Ha. Yes,” Wilson replied. “But the problem with having so much to say is that you write too much and you cover too many subjects. You’re also forced to write at a tremendous pace, just in order to make a living.”
His vampire book has been a hit with Hollywood, apparently, since it’s now heading back for a second round. Rights to make a television version of “The Space Vampires” have been acquired by Ringleader Studios (“The Amityville Horror: The Lost Tapes”) for an episodic series.
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