We're talking about vampires, of course; the fanged-sort that drink blood and have appeared in folklore for hundreds, if not thousands, of years in cultures spanning the globe.“The idea of vampires is ...
The film’s patchwork use of vampire lore results in just as much confusion, since it pulls from some existing tropes (mind control, invitations to enter, an aversion to garlic) while randomly ...
His second novel, 1975’s ’Salem’s Lot, used the story of (and vampire lore established by) Bram Stoker’s Dracula, to explore the slow death of small town America. It’s a topic that still ...