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Why Do Vampires Intrigue Us?
October 25, 2010

Why Do Vampires Intrigue Us?

Up until I started this blog, I assumed (as I suspect many did) that Bram Stoker created the vampire in his 1897 novel Dracula. But a trip to Wikipedia leads one to believe that the term “vampire” first gained prominence in Western Europe in the early 18th century. These legends stemmed from the Balkans and Eastern Europe, and after nearly a century of growth, it took hold in an 1819 …Read the Rest