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Ancient cultures told stories of night-feeding spirits, but the figure we recognize as the vampire coalesced much later in Eastern and Central Europe. Folklore scholars point to the early 1700s as the moment the “modern” vampire takes shape, during a wave of reported revenants in the Balkans. The term itself likely comes from that region, and local variants like the Romanian strigoi and the Greek vrykolakas show how communities described corpse-like predators that harassed the living, sometimes drinking blood and sometimes devouring flesh.
But there is another branch of the vampire that people rarely talk about — the science-fiction vampire. Vampires imagined not as folkloric undead, not as gothic seducers, but as biological or evolutionary phenomena, as predators in space, post-human offshoots of our own species, or alien intelligences that treat humanity as livestock or fuel.
We shouldn’t simply ask “What is a vampire?” but, what does a culture need the vampire to be at any given time? In the age of technology and knowledge, what is a vampire?
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Thanks for watching, everyone. Slight flub on George A. Romero’s name there, my bad! I think I was hungry for Italian food lol.Happy Halloween! 🎃
Wow! Thanks for making this video of how vampires have been being used in literatures!
In fact, I’ve started to get convinced into writing a group of antagonists into ”sort of” vampires. That book about the ”mind vampires” sounded almost like the forementioned antagonists group I’ve been crafting inside my head for almost two decades.
I’ve imagined So far these ”creatures” as humanoids what feed on misery, suffering, negative drama. Very often they’ll craft/morph their victims into monsters what they’ll release to go rampage into civilisations and start having bragging competitions on who credits for making the most devastating monster.
But… there is a twist with these creatures… in fact, they’re just merely pawns for things what feed on them as well as on what they have caused. A vicious cycle of creatures what leech on while bringing ruin within.
Not going to lie, in my opinion. You outdid yourself from this video! I would love to see one on werewolves in sci-fi!
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This is an exceptional essay, Quinn. I suspect Octavia’s take on vampirism is a result of her baptist upbringing and evident aversion to marriage and family. Girl stayed single her whole life. To her, both these things were all about control when, in fact, she missed the forest for a couple of trees she just didn’t like: Christianity and family dynamics, and it never occurred to her that it was only a kind of vampirism *to her*. When it’s willingly embraced, we know good and well it will reduce choice, but that’s the willing sacrifice to have intimacy, to have love, and to have God from Whom we sprang. Octavia loved the interminable limbo of potential never actualized, at least where these things were concerned. It was a poverty and a loss on her part, and she was a lesser woman for it. Though to be fair, she wrote some banger fiction. So there’s that.
do vampires count as science fiction? i think thats just fantasy.
Please man. Your choice of literature is superb, and your voice, a sweat sexual chocolate! Please!!! Give us your voice, in Audiobooks, in your merch store!❤🎉
I’m glad to see Organism 9186 is doing good! Great video. I’ll be adding these books to my reading list. Hopefully I’ll be able to have read them by next Halloween! 🤓
The romanian strigoi is actually a dead man with unresolved issues, that haunts the family, trying to relieve life. That was the whole idea. People really did exhume the bodies and drove stakes into the heart to stop it from haunting, though.
I really love your vibe!
Super video ❤
Dude, you just get better and better. It really shows that you love the literature you describe.
Also the man that reaps childrens blood
The Descolada (spelling?). Though irrc it's implied that maybe it is an engineered thing and not a naturally occurring virus. But it's the stuff of nightmares either way.
Where is Brian Lumley?
Vampires are parasites, like capitalists.
The Wraith from Stargate Atlantis.
Telepathic, treats humanity as cattle, hibernates for decades or centuries, keeps humanity from advancing past a certain point and culls them just to let them start over from nothing, turns people into unwitting or willing judas goats just so they can lead the Wraith to human populations they might have missed, and whatever you throw at them, they adapt to, and occasionally adopt, adapt and improve.
I was hoping you would talk also about Brian Lumley's Necroscope series 🙁
Such a lovely guy… he can speak properly. Even his name is cool. How come your channel just showed up now. I wonder if you knew the legendary AUDIOBOOK channel by BROTHER BARRY, Giving Voice To The Wisdom Of The Ages. His voice was sensational! Reading hundreds of thousands of books, uploading them daily…. then he lost his channel at 35 000 subs. He started again and at a whopping 300 000 he sadly passed awau. YT deleted his channel. Very sad.. I was shocked. Now, thankfully, some ppl are uploading some of his work… BOOKLOVERS UNITE! ♡♡♡ xx..
Have you read Fevre Dream by GRRM? Great vampire book with more of coexisting species angle.
So, about vampires and sci-fi
I once seen art of David Romero featuring a science-fiction + fantasy world following a vampire pirate and other small tid-bits of the world- like humonculi astronauts, how werevolves work in space etc.
I don't know if he reposted those pics again, cuz he nuked the Artstation profile he used to use (I get why)- he posts on Tumblr and Bluesky under cinemamind, but he uploaded his recent works.
I also hope he published his illustrations for Nightflyers somewhere too, because I LOVE HIS TAKE ON THAT BOOK