With A Vampire Thesis

Stereotypical vampires terrorized towns, lived in grim, dark, towering castles and turned into bats when in trouble.Authors were simply not inspired to build a tale around the life of a vampire, his shortcomings, his doubts, his fears.Rather, authors used the vampire as a metaphor for evil that resides in humanity.

The common theme in portraying vampires in literature has always involved depictions of great violence, ugliness, and fear.

Would you ever use these adjectives to describe a vampire?

One of the first works of art to touch upon the subject is the short German poem The Vampire (1748) by Heinrich August Ossenfelder, where the theme already has strong erotic overtones: a man whose love is rejected by a respectable and pious maiden threatens to pay her a nightly visit, drink her blood by giving her the seductive kiss of the vampire and thus prove to her that his teaching is better than her mother's Christianity.

Furthermore, there have been a number of tales about a dead person returning from the grave to visit his/her beloved or spouse and bring them death in one way or another, the narrative poem Lenore (1773) by Gottfried August Bürger being a notable 18th-century example (though the apparently returned lover is actually revealed to be death himself in disguise).

For a list of fictional vampires, see List of fictional vampires.

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