NEW BOOK! Bloodlines: A History of Vampires 🧛

It's been a hot minute since I posted on this blog, and I am back with exciting news. My brand new book BLOODLINES: A HISTORY OF VAMPIRES is now available in six formats: paperback, audiobook and Kindle e-book, in both English and Spanish!

The vampire isn't just a monster—it's humanity's most successful myth. We've used it for centuries to think about death, to explore predatory power, to dramatize desire and identity. When medieval villagers staked corpses, they were grappling with disease they couldn't understand. When Victorian readers thrilled to Dracula, they were processing sexual anxieties. When modern audiences watch teenage vampires or vampire romance, they are exploring questions about otherness, belonging, and transcending human limitations.

Bloodlines is the definitive cultural history of our most enduring monster. It doesn't just catalog vampire stories and their origins—it explores what makes this particular myth so enduring and adaptable. Through rigorous research presented in accessible prose, it shows how a creature born from folklore about death became a metaphor for capitalism, sexuality, addiction, authoritarianism, and the human condition itself.

Watch the trailer for the book here:

This was a super fun book to work on. It really takes a deep dive into the history and mythology of vampires, exploring what our fascination with these supernatural predators says about us as human beings.

Listen to me explain what inspired me to write a book about vampires:

And here, you can listen to me reading the book's introduction:

The book is available now in paperback, audiobook and Kindle e-book formats, in English and in Spanish. 

I hope you enjoy it!  🧛

- Dennis

"You Are Buddha" (The Audiobook)

Did you know that my first book You Are Buddha is available as an audiobook? You can download it for FREE with a trial subscription to Audible. That's 7.5 hours of meditation and reflections on spiritual awakening (written mostly during the two years when I lived as a Buddhist monk in Canada), read in my own voice.

From one listener's review: "Insightful meditations from a gentle voice. Modern American Buddhism can be heard in Hunter's personal stories and reflections."

Here are the links for those of you in the U.S., U.K., France, and Germany.

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We are all looking for greater meaning and wisdom in our lives. The problem is that we search for these things outside ourselves. The most profound teachings of the Buddha say that the wisdom we search for does not come from outside. It is already within us; it is our very nature. The spiritual path is simply a way of helping us uncover and manifest the wisdom we already have.

Filled with personal stories, guided meditations, and more, You Are Buddha offers a practical guide to learning meditation, working with thoughts and emotions, becoming more deeply embodied, understanding the nature of mind, developing ethical conduct, and becoming an authentically mature, awakened human being.

Happy listening! And I would love to get your feedback on the audiobook.

Hunter

NEW! The Audiobook Version of You Are Buddha

We are all looking for greater meaning and wisdom in our lives. The problem is that we search for these things outside ourselves. The most profound teachings of the Buddha say that the wisdom we search for does not come from outside. It is already within us; it is our very nature. The spiritual path is simply a way of helping us uncover and manifest the wisdom we already have.

Filled with personal stories, guided meditations, and more, You Are Buddha offers a practical guide to learning meditation, working with thoughts and emotions, becoming more deeply embodied, understanding the nature of mind, developing ethical conduct, and becoming an authentically mature, awakened human being.

Available in paperback, ebook and NEW audiobook format (narrated by the author).  Select a format below for details.

Or listen to a 5-minute sneak preview of the audiobook here on YouTube:

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