Uploaded October 2024 | Updated September 2026, 12 hours ago

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From Dracula and Vlad the Impaler to Lestat and Edward, vampires have haunted our imagination for centuries. But how did this nebulous myth about waking corpses become what it is today? We're diving deep on vampire media from the last 500 years to get to the bottom of the making of this modern myth.

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Chapters:
00:00:00-00:18:16 The Ancient Myth
00:18:16- 00:50:16 The Early Villains
00:50:16-01:43:46 The New Century
01:43:46-02:02:20 The Supernatural Romance
02:02:20-02:29:51 The Modern Monster