Christina Amoroso from EW.com has brought us this article.

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: In contemporary pop culture, we’ve seen vampires make that move from horror flick fear agents to more fallen or misunderstood social outcasts, who set moral limits on their nature or who see themselves as beyond morality. How did vampires go from being monsters to anti-heroes?

NEIL GAIMAN: I think mostly it has to do with what vampires get to represent. Because at the point where we begin vampire fiction, you’re in Victorian days. And we’re looking initially at the sort of antics of…that wonderful Victorian bestseller Dracula. And in each case you have characters who fundamentally represent sexuality. Dracula is a great novel of sexual seduction…and rape and sex.

Vampirism is always an excellent way of talking about sex without talking about sex. So it makes complete sense that your solid Victorian vampires were fundamentally evil. And you can have that nice big stake hammered through them as a way of putting them to rest.

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Neil give an interesting take on Vampires, I think we forget sometimes where Vampires originate and how they used to be.

Do you still think of vampires in this way? Was he accurate in his statements about Vampire and their sexuality?