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SFX Vampires - Front |
“Any money left after buying this magazine?” Well, considering that this tasty offering will set you back almost £8, it’s a fair question. It’s asked on a page of this magazine which gives examples of the sort of vampire merchandise you may be interested in. A vampire Willow figure, perhaps? Or what about a Bela Lugosi Dracula figure? I believe the price of the usual monthly
SFX magazine is £3.99. Perhaps the doubled price for this special is because of the plethora of free gifts that accompany this publication.
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SFX Vampires - Back |
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SFX Vampires Magazine |
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Being Human Coasters |
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Classic Vampire Tales |
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Vampire Lovers Poster |
In all fairness, this is an attractive package. The sturdy card envelope contains the magazine, a book and some poster art - all good. The stuff that I could have done without are four rather cheap-looking coasters featuring portrait art of the characters from
Being Human, and a coffin which you can assemble from pop-out cardboard, “If one of your
Star Wars figures is looking a bit worse for wear why not put him or her in their very own little coffin?” the magazine asks. But, really, why would you? The free book is a collection of short stories about vampires and is a little over 100 pages in length. Amongst the writers in this collection are HP Lovecraft, Rudyard Kipling, Edgar Allan Poe and Bram Stoker. As I mentioned earlier, there is also some poster art. It’s double-sided, too. One side features artwork from Hammer’s
Vampire Lovers which I like very much. The other side has artwork for
True Blood.