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By David J. Skal
The primal snapshot of the black-caped vampire Dracula has turn into an indelible fixture of the fashionable mind's eye. It's attractiveness issue opponents, in its personal perverse approach, the familiarity of Santa Claus. so much folks can recite with out prompting the salient features of the vampire: snoozing by means of day in its coffin, emerging at nightfall to feed at the blood of the dwelling; the power to shapeshift right into a bat, wolf, or mist; a mortal vulnerability to a wood stake throughout the middle or a shaft of sunlight.
In this seriously acclaimed day trip during the lifetime of a cultural icon, David Skal maps out the archetypal vampire's relentless trajectory from Victorian literary oddity to motion picture idol to cultural commodity, digging throughout the populist veneer to bare what the prince of darkness says approximately us all.
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