Vampires in litterature

Introduction:


Stories about vampires have been told all around the world in centuries, but what is biggest the difference between vampire books now and then? And what awakes our interest in them?


Three vampire books from before:

“The vampire” written by John Polidori was published 1819. This story was the first where vampires weren’t seen as murderous beasts. In this book the more sophisticated vampire we can read about today made his first entrance. It was about a young Englishman who one day meets a man called lord Ruthven, the young Englishman decides to accompany him to Rome but soon weird things are starting to happen around lord Ruthven because he is a vampire.

Later on more and more books was published about vampires, two other examples “Dracula” written by Bram Stoker 1897 and “Carmilla” written by Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu 1872. I think the most popular among those two is “Dracula” It´s a book that has been shown on theaters and in movies many times and are a book almost everyone has heard about.

It´s about Jonathan Harker who works on a firm of lawyers, he travels to Transylvania to help a client named count Dracula who wants to move to England. During the travel Jonathan gets warnings about visiting Dracula but he ignores them, too late he discovered that perhaps he should have believed the warnings he got.

Then we have “Carmilla” i choose to tell about this book because it is a little bit different compare to the other two books. Here the vampire is a female that meet a young women, they become friends (and sometimes Carmilla (the vampire) makes romantics approach toward this young women). Then weird things start to happen around Carmilla and soon it’s clear that she is a vampire.

Nowadays:

The biggest difference between vampire books from before and nowadays is that nowadays they don’t only exist in the genre horror. Nowadays you can read about them in genres like crime, romance science fiction, fantasy and a lot more. Another thing is that nowadays these the vampire isn’t always the evil one. It’s common it’s a love story between vampire and humans.


why vampires?

I believe it’s why many people like vampires it’s because the subject "vampires"has some kind of erotic charge. Perhaps it’s because they never get older and that gives us a kind of attraction to them that makes us want to read and gluttonise in the wonderful world of vampires.

(A vampirefrog drinking ketchup)

By M. Vampousar