VOP: Opening Bits

Since almost the beginning of Vampires of Pittsburgh, Ross Bryant has been introduced, at the beginning of the show, with a recurring bit. It often involves a dramatic turn towards the camera, with him caught in the middle of reading one of his many esoteric tomes or admiring a piece from his cassette tape collection.

Chronicle 1

 * Ep 2 – Dramatic turn to face the camera
 * Ep 3 – Book – The Black Arts by Richard Cavendish
 * Ep 4 – Dramatic turn to face the camera. Ross admits he is now “locked in” to the bit.
 * Ep 5 – Book – Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
 * Ep 6 – Book – Satan’s Disciples by Robert Goldston
 * Ep 7 – Book – Dark Side: The Satan Story by William C. Tremmel
 * Ep 8 – Book – The Inferno by Dante Alighieri
 * Ep 9 – Book – Continues with The Inferno
 * Ep 10 – Book – Continues with The Inferno
 * Ep 11 – Book – The Curious Lore of Precious Stones by George Frederick Kunz
 * Ep 12 – Book – Soundings in Satanism by Francis Joseph Sheed
 * Ep 13 – Book – Continues with The Curious Lore of Precious Stones
 * Ep 14 – Book – The Vampyre by John Polidori, within the anthology book called Three Gothic Novels edited by E. F. Bleiler. The other stories included are The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole and Vathek by William Beckford
 * Ep 15 – Book – Paradise Lost by John Milton
 * Ep 17 – Book – La-Bas (Down There) by Joris K. Huysmans
 * Ep 18 – Book – The Gnostic Scriptures by Bentley Layton
 * Ep 20 – Book – Satanism and Witchcraft by Jules Michelet
 * Ep 21 – Book – Vathek by William Beckford, part of the Three Gothic Novels anthology
 * Ep 22 – Book – The Origin of Satan by Elaine Pagels
 * Ep 23 – Book – Henry VI, part 2 by William Shakespeare
 * Ep 24 – Book – Against Nature by J. K. Huysmans
 * Ep 25 – Book – The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser
 * Ep 26 – Book – Egil’s Saga
 * Ep 27 – Book – Paradise Regained by John Milton
 * Ep 28 – Book – The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd
 * Ep 29 – Book – Dune by Frank Herbert
 * Ep 30 – Book – The Greek Myths by Robert Graves

Chronicle 2

 * Ep 1 – Cassette tape – Terrorscape by Kommand
 * Ep 2 – Cassette tape – Cremation Ritual by Ossuary
 * Ep 3 – Book – The Monster Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson
 * Ep 4 – Book – They Bite by Anthony Boucher, within the anthology book Great Black Magic Stories edited by Michel Parry
 * Ep 5 – Cassette tape – Running to Rhythm: Music to Pace You, Subliminal Messages to Motivate You, by Artist Unknown
 * Ep 6 – Cassette tape – Forms of Unreasoning Fear by Mortal Wound
 * Ep 7 – MSX game cassette tape – Nightsade by Ultimate Play The Game Supplied
 * Ep 8 – Book – The Vixen by Aleister Crowley, within the anthology book Great Black Magic Stories edited by Michel Parry
 * Ep 9 – Book – The Ensouled Violin by Helena P. Blavatsky, within the anthology book Great Black Magic Stories edited by Michel Parry
 * Ep 10 – Book – A story within the anthology book Great Black Magic Stories edited by Michel Parry
 * Ep 11 – Book – The Poetic Edda
 * Ep 12 – Book – Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Art of Music by Alex Ross
 * Ep 14 – Book – High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica, and Visionary Experience in the Seventies by Erik Davis
 * Ep 15 – Art magazine – By Any Means
 * Ep 16 – Cassette tape – Night Moves by Granite Mask
 * Ep 17 – Book – The Occult Sciences in the Renaissance by Wayne Shumaker
 * Ep 19 – Book – Symbols, Signs & Signets by Ernst Lehner
 * Ep 20 – Book – The Return of the Sorcerer by Clark Ashton Smith
 * Ep 21 – Book – Italian Folktales by Italo Calvino
 * Ep 23 – Book – The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers
 * Ep 24 – Book – God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert
 * Ep 25 – Book/Manga – Opus by Satoshi Kon

Chronicle 3

 * Ep 1 – Book – Dungeon Master's Guide, for Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition, by Wizards of the Coast
 * Ep 2 – Book – The Complete Plays by Christopher Marlowe
 * Ep 3 – Book – Art Sex Music by Cosey Fanni Tutti
 * Ep 4 – Book – Shakespeare's Words: A Glossary and Language Companion by Ben Crystal & David Crystal
 * Ep 5 – Cassette tape – Solitudes - Environmental Sound Experiences, Vol. 3 by Dan Gibson
 * Ep 7 – Book – Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century by Jonathan Glover
 * Ep 8 – Cassette tape – S/T by Final Death; a music project created by a SoB fan who send Ross the cassette. Described as "a dungeon, synth, ambient, black metal project, based on the world of Vampire: the Masquerade".
 * Ep 9 – Book – Splendours of the East: Temples, Tombs, Palaces and Fortresses of Asia edited by Mortimer Wheeler
 * Ep 10 – Book – Tales from the Thousand and One Nights translated by N.J. Dawood
 * Ep 13 (Finale) – Book – Three Jacobean Tragedies edited by Gamini Salgado

Frankensteins of Pennsylvania

 * Ep 2 – Book – The Mummy Walks Among Us edited by Vic Ghidalia
 * Ep 3 - Book - The Honourable Schoolboy by John le Carré
 * Ep 4 - Book - The Age of Chivalry and Legends of Charlemagne by Thomas Bulfinch
 * Ep 5 – Cassette tape – Foreverglade by Worm