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Starting as a meditation on mortality after the illness and
death of her husband, Margot Adler read more than 260
vampire novels, from teen to adult, from gothic to modern,
from detective to comic. She began wonder why vampires have
such appeal in our society now? Why is Hollywood spending
billions on vampire films and television series every year? It led her to explore issues of power, politics, morality,
identity, and even the fate of the planet.“Every society
creates the vampire it needs,” wrote the scholar Nina
Auerbach. Dracula was written in 19th century England when
there was fear of outsiders and of disease coming in through
England’s large ports. Dracula - An Eastern European monster
bringing direct from a foreign land - was the perfect
vehicle for those fears. But who are the vampires we need now? In the last four decades, going back to Dark Shadows, we
have created a very different vampire: the conflicted,
struggling-to-be-moral-despite-being-predators vampire.
Spike and Angel, Stefan and Damon, Bill and Eric, the
Cullens - they are all struggling to be moral despite being
predators, as are we. Perhaps our blood is oil, perhaps our
prey is the planet. Perhaps Vampires are us. Margot Adler is a long time NPR news correspondent, and the
author of Drawing Down the Moon, the classic book on
Contemporary Paganism, Wicca and Goddess Spirituality. She
is also the author of Heretic's Heart, a 1960's memoir.
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