For our money, there is no cooler creature in pop culture history than the vampire. • Infinitely adaptable, mysterious and powerful, vampires are the hip kids of the zeitgeist. They dominate humanity while standing apart from it, embodying all things forbidden and seductive in one conflict-laced package. • Little surprise, then, that the form each ghoul takes through history says a lot about its time and place. • “It’s ironic: They say vampires don’t cast a reflection, but vampires really are a reflection . . . of society,” said Eric Nuzum, who drank his own blood, watched 605 vampire movies and took a Romanian vampire tour to write his 2007 book, The Dead Travel Fast: Stalking Vampires from Nosferatu to Count Chocula. • “They’re in every culture and every time and they kind of capture their time,” Nuzum added. “If you ever want to know what we’re scared of, attracted to or conflicted by, just look at the vampires.” • Sounds like a good idea. So here’s a look at history’s best-known bloodsuckers, and why they say so much about us.
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