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Vampire Use In Contemporary Fantasy
the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
My take on why vampires stick around in contemporary fantasy; it's a combination of a pile of sex-related stuff*, plus the fascination of the outsider - in its more annoying forms, the outsider who angsts on for pages and pages and pages about never seeing the sun again - and the sort of repulsive fascination of disease imagery [ see also, nineteenth-century romanticisation of consumption. ]
Having just watched A Bridge Too Far on DVD last night, the title of this thread is making think of more practical uses like "if we swim over and chain a bunch of vampires to this bridge tonight, they'll all go boom at dawn and burn it down." That's probably not hemplful.
*As Gregory von Bayern says in The Dragon Waiting, vampires persuade their paramours as young men maidens; there's a little pain and a little blood but not as much as you think of either, and of course nothing's going to happen to you. And then one day you wake up... ill.
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