[UA] The Outsider: miscellaneous observations

[Timothy Ferguson]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ua-admin at lists.uchicago.edu [mailto:ua-admin at lists.uchicago.edu]On
> Behalf Of Greg Stolze

> Vampire as sex figure didn't show up until Bram Stoker, who
> really reinvented the trope.

I'd suggest Ruthven in Poldori's "The Vampire", often though to have been
written by Lord Byron, has this distinction...

> Before Bram, vampires were more
> like a George
> Romero zombie, I think.

Similar, but they tended to be rapists...



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