“Fast forward to the 19th century, and the vampire got a major glow-up thanks to books like ‘Dracula,’ which turned them into the mysterious, seductive figures we see in movies,” further ...

And here we already see the mood of grand romance that’s core to the vampire myth. “He dies for love,” says Kim Newman. Orlock perishes sitting at the young woman’s bed as the sun rises.

While it still is all of those things, the sex isn't what's prevalent in the storyline and takes more of a back burner to the ...

It’s clear that we’re in the midst of a vampire renaissance on screen—it seems like lately, stories about the blood-sucking immortal beings are everywhere. This Christmas, Robert Eggers will ...