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More 'disease' than 'Dracula' – how the vampire myth was born

  • Written by: Stanley Stepanic, Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Virginia
More 'disease' than 'Dracula' – how the vampire myth was bornModern vampires like Dracula may be dashing, but they certainly weren't in the original vampire myths.Archive Photos/ Moviepix via Getty Images

The vampire is a common image in today’s pop culture, and one that takes many forms: from Alucard, the dashing spawn of Dracula in the PlayStation game “Castlevania: Symphony of the...

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