Show notes
Dracula wasn’t born in a castle, and he definitely wasn’t born sparkling. We start with the real-world roots of the myth in Vlad the Impaler, then follow the vampire story as it migrates through European folklore, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and the film versions that lock the character into our collective brain. Along the way, we call out the weird details that make this legend stick, from “vampire panic” misunderstandings about decomposition to the way blood becomes a shortcut for fear, desire, ...
