Vampire stories seem to come with their own mythology, so why add other mythos ideas to them. Why not just fall back to the cultural view that has followed the great story tellers of the genre? I do it because there is so much more to the vampire and to our culture.

Over time the story of the vampire has been romanticized. In many ways, this has improved the story and in others has taken away the terror of the state of being undead. The story of Dark Medicine is intended to be a myth within itself, pulling upon the original and ancient tales of the vampire—back before Bran Stoker and his masterpiece of Dracula. When I pull back the layers of time to find the heart of the being that haunts the night, I find that it is entangled in the ancient myths of cultures around the world. There are similarities and there are differences, but the vampire cannot exist without the understanding of the mythos from which it has sprung.

Dark Medicine is intended to look at the curse and the allure of the vampire. Through the myth of the undead and through the myth our culture has been built up (Sumerian, Babylonian, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Celtic, and Norse) and upon the religions of the world, the story is to examine the light, the darkness, the desires to be more, and the addictions people face in their everyday lives. To draw the vampire out into the world I must draw the tapestry in which it has been wrapped within.

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