Vampires from Another World

<p> This book begins at the intersection of <I>Dracula</I> and <I>War of the Worlds</I> both published in 1897 London and describes the settings of Transylvania Mars and London as worlds linked by the body of the vampire. It explores the vampire from another world in all its various forms as a manifestation of not just our anxieties around alien others but also our alien selves. </p><p> Unsurprisingly many of the tropes these novels generated and particularly the themes they have in common have been used and adapted by vampire narratives that followed. From <I>Nosferatu</I> to <I>Alien</I> <I>Interstellar</I> <I>Stranger Things</I> and many others this book examines how these narratives have evolved since the end of the nineteenth century. Bringing together texts and films from across the 19th 20th and 21st centuries from the far reaches of outer space and the distant future it concludes that the unexpected and the unknown are not always to be feared and that humanity does have the power to write its own future.</p>