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S2E8 From Egypt to Atlantis: How Vampires Explain Their Origins
Vampires are creatures of folklore. So why do some writers feel the need to create their own origin stories for how the first vampires came to be? Do we really need to know, especially if it involves…
S2 The Campfire: Dracula 2000
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit vampirecampfirepod.substack.comWelcome back to the Campfire — our special bonus section! In this episode, Rebecca and Hannah tell our…
S2E7 Comedy, Camp, and Parody: When Vampires Make Us Laugh
Intentionally or not, vampires (and their associated tropes) are pretty good at making us laugh. What we want to know is, when are we laughing with them, and when are we laughing at them? Is our…
S2E6 "Soft red petals hiding sharp white teeth": A History of Sapphic Vampires
Despite what her marketing team will tell you, Carmilla was not the sole inspiration for Dracula — but she does get the honor of being the first lesbian vampire and, along with a few mythological…
S2E5 Unholy Communion: Vampires and the Church
From glowing crosses to squirt guns full of holy water, it’s hard to find a piece of modern vampire media that doesn’t at least pay homage to the “common knowledge” that vampires are anathema to all…
S2 The Campfire: Morbius
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit vampirecampfirepod.substack.comWelcome back to the Campfire — our new bonus section! In this episode, Rebecca regales us with the utterly…
S2E4 From Monster to Muppet: Making Vampires for Children
Moving on from last week’s discussion of (spooky scary) child vampires, in this episode Rebecca and Hannah look at how and why the vampire was turned into a character for children’s consumption. They…
S2E3 To Live Forever and Never Grow Up: The Vampire Child
Immortality isn’t always what it’s cracked up to be — especially if you end up trapped in the body of an immortal pre-teen. In this episode, Rebecca and Hannah discuss when the promise of eternal…
S2 The Campfire: Forged in Blood
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit vampirecampfirepod.substack.comWelcome to the Campfire — our new bonus section! In this episode, Hannah regales Rebecca with all the…
S2E2 An Episode of Fangs and Fate
While Dracula may not be a love tale (as we discussed last episode), there is genre of literature that wraps up vampires and romance in a pretty sexy ribbon. We’re talking about Romantasy! Today,…
S2E1 When Did Dracula Become a "Love Tale"?
A new year brings us a new season of Vampire Campfire along with a new Dracula adaption! This take on the tale is explicitly romantic, which begs the question: when did Bram Stoker’s 19th century…
S1E11 Thanksgiving Special: Romanticizing the Vampire & the Gothic Story
Welcome back for a special bonus episode! Rebecca and Hannah take a break from cooking a Gothic Victorian feast for their family’s Thanksgiving to climb onto their soapbox about recent adaptions of…
S1E10 To Slay or Not to Slay?
Say hello to the vampire slayer, the hunter, the hero! Or are they the villain? Rebecca and Hannah chew on the big questions: Who has the right to slay? Where do they get their mad skills? And isn’t…
S1E9 How Many Vampires Does It Take to End the World?
What makes a vampire story apocalyptic? What makes an apocalypse story vampiric? And why don’t more vampire stories end with the end of the world? In this episode, Rebecca and Hannah do some vampire…
S1E8 A Vampire, a Werewolf, and a Witch Walk into a Bar...
What happens when a vampire, a werewolf, and witch walk into a bar? Turns out, they either fight, fall in love, or work together to defeat evil! In this episode, Rebecca and Hannah look into why we…
S1E7 I Vant to Suck Your... Energy
Have you ever met a vampire? There’s a good chance you have — they might just have consumed energy rather than blood. In this episode, Rebecca and Hannah talk metaphorical vampires, from the earliest…
S1E6 Why Do Vampires Love the South?
Have you ever wondered why the hell so many vampires are Confederate soldiers? Or why so many of your favorite vampire stories are set among the mists and mosses of New Orleans? In this episode,…
S1E5 Schools & Rules
To celebrate back-to-school season, Rebecca and Hannah enter the world of dark academia and vampire institutions of learning. Focusing on four books, Blue Bloods, Marked, Vampire Academy, and…
S1E4 Are All Vampires a Leetle Gäy?
Rebecca and Hannah chew on the question: Are all vampires are a little gay? We discuss the background of Bram Stoker’s Dracula; consider food, appetite, and eroticism; and critique the connection…
S1E3 Dracula's Older Gayer Cousins
Count Dracula wasn’t the first literary vampire, not even close! Rebecca and Hannah travel back to the 19th century to look at the vampire poems, short stories, and novels that came before Bram…
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