Vampires

At the end of the nineteenth-century, the novelist Bram Stoker transformed a relatively obscure revenant creature into the elegant gothic villain we know as Dracula.

Since then the vampire has remained an important figure in the gothic imagination, becoming both more frightening and more domesticated in numerous films, fictions and popular culture.

This lecture examines the changing nature of vampires and vampirism by examining the origins of this supernatural creature and the ways in which it has been adapted in different genres from horror films to children’s literature.

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