CorvidaeOct 18, 2018

After a recent discussion about vampires I listened to I've, kind of, reached a thought:

There are four major themes about vampires. It's either xenophobic cuckoldry (the mysterious stranger comes and seduces weak willed women with carnal pleasure), critique of capitalism (at times with a antisemitic tint), the misunderstood monster-boy, or the punk-vampires living in a society separate but co-existing with humans (often told as a monsterboy-story).

Thoughts?

Show threadGordo
@corvidae - there's also vampirism as a disease or realization of an internal spiritual corruption.
Oct 18, 2018 at 2:21pmWeb
Show threadCorvidaeOct 18, 2018
@gallowglass Yeah, but I can't think of any example that doesn't end up falling into either the cuckold-vampires or the capitalist-vampires. Same as with addiction, vampirism as a disease is the more abstract theme.