They are portrayed as being alive, or the recently deceased brought back to life through the power of some demon or spirit. Strip back all the trappings and window dressing and what you have is a human-like creature that survives on blood, typically human blood, and which typically kills it’s victims without feasting on their flesh. They’ve been modernized again and again through TV shows and action movies and they’re around virtually every corner you turn at Halloween time. They’ve been portrayed as the beautiful eternal creatures that have lived in the shadows of our world connecting our romanticized past with our decadent present via Count Dracula and the Anne Rice novels. Vampires have appeared in one form or another in every culture I know of throughout the world and as a result there’s a lot of variety in their stories and it’s easy to get lost in the trappings we associate with them. The compelling thing about vampires is that you can focus on them as characters in your story, whereas zombies tend to lead fairly boring one-track afterlives. In fact I’ve probably seen and read a lot more vampire fiction simply because as I was growing up there was a hell of a lot more of it. I used to be a huge fan of vampire books and movies. Some of which can be hard to distinguish from your regular hungry walker. Although this is a blog about zombies, I thought it would be good to take a week and look at some of the other undead monsters out there.
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