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The Mount Rushmore of Public Domain Halloween Monsters | Vampire Summer (opens the original)
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We're getting further down the vampire funnel into allegory and metaphor--what do vampires MEEEEEAAANN??? We start with some historical medical cases that give insight into what people in the past thought of vampires, with the case of Mercy Brown, and an explainer on the vampire-adjacent Chinese mythological creature the Jiangshi. We also look at a few of our favorite (or at least most foundational) examples of vampires in literary or cultural works that are used to explore social and political
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