Pulling from inspirations like contemporary fiction such as Woman Eating by Claire Kohda, True Blood, and Jennifer’s Body, old masterwork like The Bat Woman by Albert Joseph Penot, Love and Pain by Edvard Munch, and The Death of Amy Robsart by William Frederick Yeames, as well as feminist ideals like compulsory heterosexuality, I aim to probe what vampires mean, not only to me, but to us as people. In the 200 years since the publication of Polidori’s The Vampyre, there have been hundreds of reimagining of this creature that stalks the night. Many cultures have their own versions of the vampire, dating back to Ancient Greece. Every time a story is retold, it gains a bit of the teller’s experience, and I’m no different.
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