From INTRODUCTION: What is a vampire? Nearly a century ago, this
question wasn't difficult to answer. If you subscribed to the image
of the vampire immortalized in Stoker's 1897 novel, Dracula, the
vampire was evil incarnate, a creature whose supernatural existence
and gruesome means of sustenance contradicted the norms by which
civilized human beings measured what was natural and morally proper.
With his nocturnal habits, the vampire served as a potent symbol for
humanity's unenlightened superstitions; in his evocation of primal
darkness, he became a counter-symbol of the divinity who turned the
darkness of the void into light.
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Edition Info: Hardcover; 1995
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