I've been excited about the 2014 retelling of the Dracula mythos for quite some time. A Faust-based narration, casting Vlad the Impaler as a suffering hero who made a deal with the Devil to save his people? Sign me up! What I wasn't prepared for was the sermonizing, heavy-handed Christian morality, and cliché, card board cutout representations of good and evil. Let's start with the basics. Vlad the Impaler, Vlad III, was a Prince of Wallachia - Transylvania - who lived in the ...
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I'm the author of Gods of Myth and Man and Evil Be My Good. I have a PhD in comparative literature, and am interested in how mythological and religious symbolism influences contemporary pop culture.
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