A series on monsters

Vampire time. Well today I want to continue what I started in my last blog with a break down of our favorite horror stories. Tonight it is the old standby, Vampires! Now these guys are a little more believable than our prior subject. They are simply after blood. They do not resort in wholesale harvesting of their victims like zombies do, they can turn you into one of them but there is control. And they are smart. Most of the time your modern vampire could be portrayed as stylish, suave even sophisticated. While the current trend is to make them more inviting and desirable, they are a very strong staple of the horror genre from time immemorial. The original vampires were NOT handsome pale heart breakers. If you watch the old time Black and White “Nosferatu” you will see a misshapen wretch who had a power of hypnosis over his (it’s ?) victims. To me this one is far more believable because it has more weaknesses. But also because of how it has been treated by popular culture. I mean think about it. Here is a creature that started out despised and truly horrible and now it has become something to be lusted after. I mean that really sounds to me like a VERY good P.R. job on the part of the coalition of vampires. First they went from misshapen things, to suave debonair gentlemen of the night. Then from there to desirable young men (and women) to the current idea of them being a preferred “mate” for real human beings. Sounds like about the best P.R. job in the entire history of earth. I guess that means we better all stock up on Holy water, garlic and wooden stakes. Of course there is no real evidence that vampires are real. But maybe you better be prepared