![]() ![]() And we try to say, well, that’s the Serbian vampire. He adds that “we use the term ‘vampire’ and then we find all these different cross-cultural examples. “There’s a whole body of literature that doesn’t really make its way into that Western canon that is a little bit closer to the original folk traditions, or certainly vampire myths,” Brady says. But he stresses that author Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel only offers a Western interpretation of the mythical being. ![]() Joel Brady, a professor at the University of Pittsburgh’s University Center for Teaching and Learning and who has come to be known as the ”vampire professor” in certain necks of the woods, acknowledges that Dracula is the GOAT to the most voracious chupacabras of the topic. From TV shows like FX’s What We Do in the Shadows and AMC’s upcoming Interview with the Vampire to movies like next year’s Salem’s Lot and this year’s Morbius, vampire stories will never get old for the entertainment industry.īut those aren’t the only mediums that can stake a claim on the genre. ![]()
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