"Color?" said the
vampire. "Is that all? Color iss eazy-peazy. How soon do you vant it?"—Terry Pratchett,
The Truth, 2001 Black silk, white incisors, blood-red lips, pallid complexions, deep purple velvet.
Truly, "the horror of vampirism is expressed in color" (Diane Negra,
The Irish in Us, 2006).