Once when I went over my work with my Washington University professor, the late great Stanley Elkin, he pointed to a passage of mine and said: 'Stop vamping.' It has remained a caution.
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When I started writing about vampires, I swore that I wouldn't touch the 'Dracula' legend because it's been done too many times.
It's only in modern times that we have come to glorify vampirism.
Vampires have always been hot. They are one of our most durable monsters. It's one of those stories that galvanizes us early and it's always going on.
Isn't that an odd philosophy for a vampire?
I discovered early on that some performers live their life in order to act, so all their relationships are simply an experience that they can feed back into their work. Which I find vampiric.
Vampires to me have always been very sexy.
Becoming a vampire means completely changing your identity.
'Interview with a Vampire' made vampires sexy.
Vampires are always going to be sexy.
There were no vampires of note in Western literature until about the 18th century. But they tell us where we park our anxieties, whether its over-powerful women, death or damnation. We make our own monsters.
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