(You can read that story, retitled “Blood of Nalakia,” online at. ![]() Schmitz’s science fiction short story “The Vampirate,” published in Science-Fiction Plus magazine in 1953. Somper claims the word just came to him, and I’d be inclined to credit him with its invention … if not for its use in 2004 in the webcomic Charby the Vampirate, in 2003 in Uncle Davver’s Really Scary Movie Show and in what I think may be the decisive winner, James H. Before that, British author Justin Somper wrote the six-book Vampirates series of novels for young readers, starting in 2005 with Demons of the Ocean. The first “vampirate” I encountered was Jessica Marcrum’s Captain Fulmini from Hit Point Press’s Big Bads series. Whoever first coined the portmanteau “vampirate” must have felt very proud, and deservedly so-but it wasn’t Chris Perkins, or whoever else worked with him on Spelljammer.
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