... : the romance and the legend-, sustains that the mythical figure of the Vampire is based on two popular beliefs as old as manhood: a) Faith in a Life after Death b) Faith in the magical "power- of blood. About point a), it must be specified that this Life after Death should have place in an another world like Valhalla, Ade, Paradise and so on. The death is the limit between the real and the ... of horror, no matter how primitive, is allegorical by it's very nature: that is symbolic."" (S. King, Danse Macabre) This allegorical nature is multiplied by the versatile character of the vampire...

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