Sexy Vampires

Vampires in folklore were originally just corpses that came back from the grave to terrorize the living. You didn't need to actually see one to be afraid of them. When these monsters entered literature, they began to be more attractive. In the cinematic age, they are downright sexy. Well, literature, theater, and movie producers know they attract bigger audiences with a sexy antagonist. But even more than that, the story is easier to tell when a monster can draw victims into his clutches. That's the easy answer. But it's even more than that- an attractive and charming vampire makes the story closer to real life, because most women have encountered a sexy and charming man who turned out to be a monster of some sort. Dr. Emily Zarka of Monstrum goes deep into the evolution of vampires from obvious monsters that we would all run away from to seductive shape-shifters that we are drawn to -with some notable exceptions.