Tales of vampiric degeneracy

The fascination with creatures that have vampire tendencies and interweaving of the same with sexuality are itself never-ending sources of fascination to academics, film makers and other culture warriors.

The concept is useful in a range of topics, including the famous Rolling Stone article The Great American Bubble Machine:

The world's most powerful investment bank [Goldman Sachs] is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money. In fact, the history of the recent financial crisis, which doubles as a history of the rapid decline and fall of the suddenly swindled dry American empire, reads like a Who's Who of Goldman Sachs graduates.

The vampire squid bubble machine copycats are at work outside of the USA in the vein of 'invasion of the home snatchers' (see above article) via housing bubbles from London, to Sydney and Melbourne, to Vancouver and Hong Kong.

Austi Classics, a leading republisher of classics, has republished three classic vampire tales from the 19th Century. The editions are available at Amazon here: Carmilla and The Vampyre: 2 classic vampire stories and here: Dracula.

Unattributed painting of Vlad the Impaler of Romania, based on a 16th Century painting. The historical figure of Vlad the Impaler was partial inspiration for Bram Stoker's Dracula story and cover image for the Austi Classics edition.