5/12/2023 0 Comments I am legend book vampiresNothing dates as badly as a botched modernisation, and the 1950s trend for science fiction vampires is not particularly well-remembered today. It was not until Hammer’s 1958 Dracula starring Christopher Lee that the traditional supernatural vampire came back into vogue. More often than not, vampire films of the 1950s associated vampires with mad scientists: sometimes they were the product of mad science other times the vampires were themselves mad scientists, operating laboratories and unleashing monsters as in. The trend began in earnest with the film House of Dracula (1945), where the Count was portrayed as a victim of an exotic blood parasite who could conceivably be cured by medical science. But it was not until the postwar years that the idea of the scientific vampire reached its peak popularity. Charles Wilkins Webber’s Spiritual Vampirism and Florence Marryat’s Blood of the Vampire drew upon the pseudoscientific topic of psychic power to depict vampires who fed on something less tangible than blood. James Malcolm Rymer’s ramshackle Varney the Vampire introduced – and later abandoned – the notion that its main character was a man resurrected through galvanism. As far back as the nineteenth century, certain writers had tried to demystify vampires by coming up with scientific explanations for their condition and behaviour.
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