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Sex, love and immortality: Behind the obsession with vampires

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The first short story about the monster written in the English language was John Polidori's The Vampyre in 1819 .

Bram Stoker's Dracula in 1897 inspired F.W. Murnau's silent film Nosferatu in 1922 .

Professor Dr Sam George says the vampire's always been linked with disease, contagion.

The combination of love and immortality, Dr George says, is also seen in Francis Ford Coppola's 1992 film Bram Stoker's Dracula , which ran with the tagline "love never dies". For Dr George , the "sense that the vampire can address a number of questions all at once," from death to love is the reason it stays with us today ..

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50

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40

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39

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informal

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English

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48

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