"I don't really ascribe to them, though I still have like a. black cat like crossing the street kind of thing," he says about his e-jerk reaction to certain moments. "It's just a powerful image that's been drilled into my brain." He also wrote something called the practical manual of vampirism which he later tried to take off the shelves because he considered it bad. And then he went on like a pilgrimage in Spain and wrote a book called, you guessed it, The Pilgrimage.