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"It’s an old story: Boy meets girl, boy sneaks into girl’s room and gnaws on her neck, girl joins ranks of the undead, boy turns into a large bat and flits out a window.
With one foot in eastern European lore and the other straddling 21st-century popular culture, vampire legends are now the topic of a Virginia Commonwealth University literature course, Vampires from Dracula to Twilight, which explores the birth of the original undead bloodsucker and his seemingly eternal life in pop culture.
The class charts his bizarre evolution from ghastly ghoul to lisping breakfast cereal pitchman to irresistible teen heartthrob."
"It’s an old story: Boy meets girl, boy sneaks into girl’s room and gnaws on her neck, girl joins ranks of the undead, boy turns into a large bat and flits out a window.
With one foot in eastern European lore and the other straddling 21st-century popular culture, vampire legends are now the topic of a Virginia Commonwealth University literature course, Vampires from Dracula to Twilight, which explores the birth of the original undead bloodsucker and his seemingly eternal life in pop culture.
The class charts his bizarre evolution from ghastly ghoul to lisping breakfast cereal pitchman to irresistible teen heartthrob."