id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-8244 Vampire literature - Wikipedia .html text/html 9439 1208 71 Though Stoker's Count Dracula remained an iconic figure, especially in the new medium of cinema, as in the film Nosferatu, 20th-century vampire fiction went beyond traditional Gothic horror and explored new genres such as science fiction. Dimitris Lyacos's second book of the Poena Damni trilogy With the People from the Bridge handles the vampire legend in the context of a ritualistic post-theatrical drama performance.[11]In a dystopian setting, under the arches of a derelict bridge, a group of social outcasts[12]present an unconventional, non-Gothic version of a vampire drawing from ancient Greek religion[13]and literature, Christian eschatology as well as traveler reports of vampire epidemics in the Balcans.[14]The story is recounted in a minimalist style that makes no explicit mention to vampires, the undead, graves or the Underworld, conveying, nevertheless, the underlying theme unambiguously and in striking physical detail.[15] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-8244.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-8244.txt