Vampires We Have Known

12 April 2012 · The Guardian

Sam Jordison

Bram Stoker Estate account

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Sam Jordison revisits the Guardian’s sceptical 1897 review of Dracula and traces the vampire’s changing cultural role, from Romantic literature to Twilight. He argues that successive generations reshape the creature around their own anxieties and desires.

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Related illustration: The Vampire.Painting by Philip Burne-Jones, 1897.