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Vampire fiction found its definitive rendition in the late Victorian Era when Bram Stroker published his novel Dracula in 1897, bringing together eroticism, gothic horror, and a demonic contagion for an unholy union. With cinema capturing the imagination of the masses in the twentieth century, Count Dracula soon became the most recognizable vampire around the globe, with some preferring the sophistication of Bela Lugosi and others the animalistic drive of Max Schrecks Nosferatu. But most stories confined the vampire lord to the past, begging the question of what if he had landed in America in the present day. This is the question that the "King of Horror," Stephen King, answers in his book Salem's Lot.
Salem's Lot came when the vampire trope was entering a phase of fatigue after a string of lackluster sci-fi vampire literature and raunchy B-movies. An immediate bestseller on arrival,...
Vampire fiction found its definitive rendition in the late Victorian Era when Bram Stroker published his novel Dracula in 1897, bringing together eroticism, gothic horror, and a demonic contagion for an unholy union. With cinema capturing the imagination of the masses in the twentieth century, Count Dracula soon became the most recognizable vampire around the globe, with some preferring the sophistication of Bela Lugosi and others the animalistic drive of Max Schrecks Nosferatu. But most stories confined the vampire lord to the past, begging the question of what if he had landed in America in the present day. This is the question that the "King of Horror," Stephen King, answers in his book Salem's Lot.
Salem's Lot came when the vampire trope was entering a phase of fatigue after a string of lackluster sci-fi vampire literature and raunchy B-movies. An immediate bestseller on arrival,...
- 10/29/2024
- by Sayantan Gayen, Ajay Aravind
- CBR
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