Vampires have been with us from the beginning of time, from the myth of Adam's first wife Lilith, to our contemporary guardian angels in Twilight and Let the Right One In.
Other monsters have come and gone - the Leviathan, the Harpies and the Sirens. Scylla and Charybdis are relegated to the pages of Homer's epic. But vampires have gone all the way with us. They have developed from monstrous outsiders to incarnations of our sense of alienation, from alien creatures to beings that are possibly more human than us, more appreciative of the meaning and the possibilities of humanness.
Maybe Nina Auerbach hit the nail on the head when she saw the connection. That our vampires are intricately and indelibly linked to ourselves.
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