Wake Not the Dead

Having learned recently that I’m likely related to one of the most famous early writers of dark fiction, Edgar Allan Poe, I grew curious about whether he’d encountered vampire legends and how they might have influenced him. While it’s true that Poe wrote no overt vampire tales, there is an arc of stories that have vampire-like themes and would require only minor changes to make them fit easily into the genre. I’ll discuss that story arc a week from now, but today, I’m focused on influences, whic...