Vampires

I honestly learned a lot from the lecture on Tuesday. I didn't know any of the history behind Vlad the Impaler. I knew about vampire but only as society today sees them. Today people see vampires as halloween figures. They are known for sucking blood, having fangs, turning into bats etc. At the very beginning of the book, second sentence of the introduction, Williamson talks about critics reminding us that vampires can infect us with their otherness. That is exactly what people think about vampires, they are seen as "others". Although i do not know much about vampires, i am aware that there is much more to them, and I'm enjoying reading this book.