Playboy fiction story from the 70's (I think) about Vampire & AIDS

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Back in the day when Playboy magazine was really into sponsoring creative writing they had a few pretty good story collections. One story was about a “vampire”. This vampire was not so much supernatural as some kind of mutant Vietnamese woman with a tentacle like tongue with suckers on it, and people would pay to see her suck the blood from a person. This women had a little vampire baby and she would feed it blood from her mouth after feeding herself.

The story was written from the perspective of the sacrificial man who was being fed on and IIRC his revenge was that he had AIDS would kill the mother and baby by infecting them.

Anyone remember this story and the title? I think it was from the 70’s.

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AIDS didn’t emerge until the 80’s - and wasn’t referred to as AIDS until the mid-80’s; it was called GRID at first…

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That story reminds me of The White Wolf, broadcast on CBS Radio Mystery Theatre in the '70s. (The radio play was based on The White Wolf Of The Hartz Mountains.) In it, AFAIKR, a family is living in an isolated cabin in the Hartz Mountains. The mother had died, and one day the father brought back a new bride. Turns out she’s a werewolf who eats the family. The son is sick and bedridden, and he is eaten last. He has leukemia, which is passed to the werewolf when she eats him. Narrator E.G. Marshall assures the listeners, ‘Fear not, the werewolf is dead…’

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In recalling it may have been hepatitis instead of AIDS. But it was something deadly.

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I doubt that the story was from the 70s, just because AIDS wasn’t known about until the 80s. Good luck, though.

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AIDS is right. It’s the decade you got wrong. The story is “Death in Bangkok” by Dan Simmons from the early 90s.

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During a heyday period (late 80s-early 90s) SNL did a great sketch with James Woods playing Dracula approaching different women and asking them more and more personal questions (the joke being you finally realized he was screening them for AIDS). Coincidentally, when the first thing he asked Victoria Jackson was if she had a boyfriend and she said, “Yes, maybe you’ve heard of him, his name is Kieth Richards” (he was the musical guest) Woods immediately just said, “Thank you” and moved on!

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Thanks!

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Holy shit I had this issue. The only issue of PB that I managed to sneak from a local corner store.

Was it in the issue with Anna Nicole Smith?

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I remember the story too! Glad someone knew the title, cause I sure didnt. i do remember that it was necessary for the man to procure a forged letter that certified his HIV negative status. And that it was revenge for someone who had given himself over to the vampire women and died there.

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It’s revealed at the end that the revenge seeker was gay and in love with an earier victim; a war buddy during the Vietnam War. 20 years pass before he returns to Bankok and offers himself to the “vampire” and her grown daughter. Sometime during that time he had contracted AIDS but I don’t recall if he did so intentionally in order to exact his revenge.

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I’ve got the issue here. Getting AIDS wasn’t intentional. He goes from being angry about the diagnosis to realizing that he has been handed the means to kill the mother and child.