There’s Twilight of course, and True Blood, and going back in time a little, there was Buffy the Vampire Slayer and all those Anne Rice novels. I shouldn’t have been surprised to stumble on two more that feature vampires front and center — Moonlight and The Gates. You’d have to live under a rock in the wilderness to be ignorant of the vampire craze. They’re everywhere these days. But did you know there are biblical tie-ins, too? Take this, for example: The Greek word that denotes the evil serpent figure in the Christian book of Revelation is drakon (yes, like “dragon”).
A variation of it became the Romanian word for “devil” — dracul. You can probably see where I’m going with this. Dracul became the nickname of a fifteenth century Transylvanian gent, who belonged to the fraternal society “Order of the Dragon.” His son Vlad Tepes grew up to be the cruel count “Vlad the Impaler,” also known as Dracul, Jr., “the little devil” dracula (being the diminutive form of dracul). Centuries later Bram Stoker came along, and the rest is history. More to come on the blood, the sex, and those ultra long lives… Wha ha-ha ha-ha.
