Adam Rex

Vampirism is like celebrity now. Vampires are these eternally young, thin, sexy apparitions of perpetual nightlife and absolutely nothing like their folkloric European boogeyman predecessors. We don't even make our vampires sleep in coffins anymore, or the ground.

American Artist

Stephenie Meyer

Vampirism, for me, was a way to live in fantasy and have superpowers, but not just in a really perfect, happy, everything is great way. It's superpowers with a cost. It's having to be the villain, and what do you do about that.

American Author

Alan Arkin

I don't live in L.A. on purpose because I don't wanna be immersed in that. I have to have a real life, with real people, in order to inform what I'm doing; otherwise, it just becomes the snake eating its own tail. Vampirism.

American Actor

Guillermo del Toro

There are two levels of vampirism: one is the regular vampire, which is just like it has always been; and then there's the super vampires, which are a new breed we've created.

Mexican Director

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Death is the one predator we can't escape. But vampires have found the loophole so many of us crave. I think that's the allure of vampirism.

American Writer

Alexandra Cassavetes

The vampire movies I embraced as a kid used vampirism as a metaphor that expressed deep sadness and a lot of human qualities.

American Actress

Julie Plec

Originals' is a show that is not about struggling as a vampire but reveling in it. It's about embracing vampirism.

American Producer

Park Chan-wook

When you consider the concept of vampirism, it is inherently part of a Western culture.

South Korean Director

It's only in modern times that we have come to glorify vampirism.

Used to describe actions or conditions resembling those of horror stories featuring vampires.

Horror Themes

Often metaphoric; doesn’t always mean drinking actual blood.

Not Literal

Stories of vampirism vary across cultures, enriching the folklore.

Cultural Variations

Refers to a genre of literature that includes vampires and gothic elements.

Literary Genre

Represents a rare psychological condition, not the supernatural.

Psychological Aspect

Does not imply the person is a vampire, it's a psychological issue.

Not Vampires

Vampirism can describe situations where someone is being excessively used or drained.

Metaphoric Usage

Can refer to someone emotionally taxing, requiring excessive support or energy.

Emotional Draining

 those with weaker immune systems. TB’s outward symptoms even helped fuel the popular myth of vampirism. In spite of– or perhaps because of these less than scientific concerns, this period also marked the first strides toward curing TB.