He longs for the days of the old Count and the old vampire ways when there was always a billowing curtain, a room with an open window, caskets, creaking doors and all the other castle trappings made popular in vampire lore. The Magpyr family's servant is Igor who is a traditionalist who spends his spare time breeding and distributing spiders for the dark corners of the castle. The Magpyr son, Vlad, (a common vampire name coming from the original Dracula - the Transylvanian Prince Vlad the Impaler) is attracted to Agnes because she is able to resist him.

Only the youngest witch, Agnes, and the Omnian priest, Mightily Oats, seem able to resist this charm, due to their dual personalities. They exert a hypnotic charm over normal people which prevents them from realizing that the vampires are taking over Lancre. They munch on garlic, aren't bothered by bright light, cross moving water and are impervious to religious symbols. The Magpyr family have made themselves much more formidable enemies than old fashioned vampires by building up tolerance to the normal methods used to defeat vampires. Once again, the witches, Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Agnes Nitt (with her alter ego Perdita) have to save the mountain realm of Lancre.

The Magpyrs are not keen on going home to Überwald and plan on making Lancre their new home with its obvious benefit of a whole new population to snack on - hence the scarves worn by the victims to cover their neck wounds. Plot summary Ĭount Magpyr and family are invited to the naming of Magrat and King Verence's daughter, to be conducted by the Omnian priest, Mightily Oats. The title is a play on the Latin phrase carpe diem ('seize the day') and ' Jugular vein' - in other words ' Go for the throat'.

In Carpe Jugulum, Terry Pratchett imitates the traditions of gothic vampire literature, playing with the mythic archetypes and featuring a tongue-in-cheek reversal of 'vampyre' subculture with young vampires who wear bright clothes, drink wine, and stay up until noon. Carpe Jugulum is a comic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett, the twenty third in the Discworld series.

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