
Vampires in Gothic Literature
You're Dead to Me
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The Perfect Vampire for the Covet Age
Vampire fiction is about the past coming into the present, says Corin. We have two different versions of vampires in the way we look at them. There's nothing funnier than a fisheof water vampire story where a vampire is like trying to work out modern technology. Byron went from writing about vampires and being the inspiration for polydore's vampire, to being depicted in twentieth century books and films as himself an actual vampire. And by the mid nineties, i can think of four novels in which byron had a fully fledged vampire - including tom holland's kind of brilliant lord of the dead. But there's a big difference between being a bastard and
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