Where Lestat (2005) killed off the vampire musical, TV’s Lestat is resurrecting it.
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Count Dracula was originally a rank-breathed predator. His transformation into a tragic romantic mirrors a century of shifting attitudes about sex, gender and desire.
Vampires reflect the prejudices of their times.
The question of whether Bella can consent to becoming a vampire is misleading.
The vampires of Twilight captured the spirit of 2005. But are they the vampires we need in 2025?
Take a world tour of monsters, from vampires in Serbia and giants in Cornwall to festivals of dragons in Bavaria and werewolves in Louisiana.
The film’s vampire, Remmick, has come to Mississippi from Ireland.
The Buffy reboot faces a problem: what to do about visibly older cast members who play ageless vampires?
The film transposes Bram Stoker’s Dracula to 1970s New England.
Interview with the Vampire season two asks: ‘What happens to trauma, if you live forever?’
Monsters reveal how societies define and punish deviance. Wintering’s widows make me think about the women I know who are strong and wise in ways neither recognised nor endorsed by the mainstream.
Renfield attempts to remodel the vampire movie to 21st century specifications.
Black vampires have existed for 200 years in literature.
A newsletter sends out chronological snippets from the 125-year-old novel ‘Dracula.’ Fans on the internet go wild.
Everyone is going ‘goblin mode’, but does the trend unfairly malign goblins of folklore?
Many of Count Orlok’s characteristics have gone on to be canon in the lore of vampires.
The past century’s vampires have often been a bit dashing, even romantic. That’s not how the myth started out.
These medical volunteers have been closely associated with several kinds of non-human actors, whose behaviour is worth examining in more detail.
A tale of vampirism would have been shocking to readers at the time if was published, not because of its monsters, but its politics.
The latest version of the Gothic vampire chiller is brought to you with the trademark humour of writers Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss.
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