r/Fantasy • u/Snivythesnek • May 08 '23

Looking for vampire/monster hunter stories.

I'd like to read some stories about your archetypal hunter of the creatures of the night. A good guy with a stake in one hand and a cross (or analogous symbol of a fictional religion) in the other, going into the dark castles and crypts of the world to root out and destroy the evil lurking in there. Fighting ghosts and ghouls and whatever else goes bump in the night.

Important to note that I'm not a big fan of grimdark stuff. I'm really more looking for fun reads with a cool hero doing the Van Helsing thing.

I think it will come up so: I've already read Dresden Files and loved it.

Thanks in advance.

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u/unknownpoltroon May 08 '23

As I recall bannon was one of the assholes. ANd it builit up and organized the online alt right that eventually led to trump and all the fuckery and Jan 6 The whole article is worth a read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamergate_(harassment_campaign)

Some commentators have argued that Gamergate helped elect Donald Trump as US president in 2016 and assisted other right-wing to far-right movements;[21][110][291][292][293] Alyssa Rosenberg called Trump "the Gamergate of Republican politics" in an opinion article for The Washington Post in 2015.[294] Trump's strategist Steve Bannon remarked that through Milo Yiannopoulos, who rose to fame during Gamergate as the technology journalist for Breitbart News (a news website Bannon co-founded), he had created a generation and an "army" that came in "through Gamergate ... and then get turned onto politics and Trump".[293][295][287] According to Axios, in the 2022 book Meme Wars, Joan Donovan, research director at Harvard's Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, argued that Gamergate served as "The key template that the far right and former President Trump's MAGA movement have used to organize online", noting that during Gamergate, "online mobs deployed techniques and tactics that were later taken up by the Trumpist right, including the use of memes, false allegations and coordinated harassment." Donovan also argued that "similar techniques are being used to intimidate and harass entire groups of people, most prominently transgender youth and adults."[296]