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Shadows of Immortality: Vampires from Folklore to Pop Culture

Shadows of Immortality: Vampires from Folklore to Pop Culture

Update: 2025-09-22
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On this episode we trace the vampire’s long, shadowy journey, from 18th-century graveyard panics and Slavic strigoi to the seductive aristocrats of Gothic fiction and the conflicted immortals of modern pop culture. We also will go into how the  myth evolves on screen, from Nosferatu and Bela Lugosi to Anne Rice, Buffy, and beyond. We explore why the vampire keeps returning to embody everything we fear (and secretly crave): mortality, contagion, seduction, power, and immortality. 


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Shadows of Immortality: Vampires from Folklore to Pop Culture

Shadows of Immortality: Vampires from Folklore to Pop Culture

Alyson Horrocks | Morbid Network