When you hear the word vampire, what comes to mind? Dracula? The Twilight books? Ancient castles in Transylvania?

What if I told you that vampire stories are much older, and much stranger, than you think?

In today’s Halloween special episode of Thinking in English, we’re going to explore the history of vampires. We’ll start with ancient superstitions and medieval fears, move on to the vampires of literature, and finally look at how vampires appear in modern culture.
Along the way, we’ll ask an important question: Why do humans invent blood-drinking monsters?

By the end of this episode, you’ll understand where vampire myths came from, why they terrified people for centuries, and you’ll have learned some new English vocabulary along the way!

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