White Wolf Publishing hadn't planned on publishing clan books for its Vampire: The Requiem role-playing game, but the players have demanded it and so starting in the fall of 2007 White Wolf will release a series of hardcover books each one of which will be devoted to describing one of the vampire clans in the VTR RPG. 

Each VTR Clan volume will examine a different vampiric group (in the VTR RPG the recruits/kindred are initiated into one of five clans as part of their transformation into vampires).  The Daeva clan is composed of debonair types, who are at ease in drawing room society and often are compared to Anne Rice's LeStat, while the Gangrel are vicious savage predators who use brutality rather than seduction to gain converts.  The Mekhet are Paracelsian vampires who like evil alchemists make use of obscure occult practices to control others from behind the scenes, while the Nosferatu resemble the fiendish Count Orlok from F.W. Murnau's silent vampire classic.  Murnau adapted his film from Bram Stoker's Dracula novel, but the gaunt, cadaver-faced Orlok bears little resemblance to Stoker's Dracula, who is the model for VTR's Ventrue clan, which consists of aristocratic vampires who rule the kingdom of the night like French nobles ruled the peasants before the revolution.

White Wolf will release additional details about the format (black-and-white or color), length and cost of the VTR Clan volumes as publication nears.