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Roger Luckhurst, ‘From Dracula to The Strain: Where do vampires come from?’

Posted on 1st August 2015 by William the Bloody

A brilliant, concise overview of the origins of contemporary vampire narratives by Prof, Roger Luckhurst of Birkbeck College, London. He traces the vampire story from the Eats European accounts in the eighteenth-century through Polidori, Varney the Vampire, ‘Carmilla’ and (inevitably) … Continue reading →

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