Just collecting thoughts! Open to discussion. 1.Dracula/Carmilla era: the vampire as the Horrific/Vampiric Other, while we sympathise with the white narrator 2. Twilight/Buffy era: the vampire as the eroticised "Familiar", in which a white narrator is romantically drawn to a vampire that reads as white 3. The Sinners/post-colonial and post-heteronormative vampire, in which the vampire is a symbol of the Othered again but this time they are the main characters and narrative drivers