Vampira was sex and death all wrapped up in a tight black tattered dress with a slit up the leg. She had soft raven hair, long phallic nails, dark lips, and commanding eyebrows arched just so. And she floated through the night's eerie haze, through the airwaves of the family television and right into the living room to let out a brash, horrifying, yet pleasurable scream. She would look right into the camera, right into your eyes, calm after such a gratifying orgasmic release and say with a coy smile, "Screaming relaxes me so," right before she introduced the nightly flick.
Read MoreFame, Child Actresses, & Dying Too Young: An Interview With Amber Tamblyn
Many may first recognize Amber Tamblyn as the actress from such horror flicks and thrillers as The Ring or The Grudge films. Perhaps many also remember her as young filmmaker “Tibby Rollins” from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants or, more recently, as part of the Inside Amy Schumer cohort of comediennes from numerous sketches such as the riotous “80s Ladies.” What many may not know, however, is Tamblyn is an accomplished poet with two chapbooks, Of the Dawn and Plenty of Ships and three collections of poems including Free Stallion (2005) and Bang Ditto (2009).
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