1976: The dualistic approaches and ideological similarities in identifying Postmodern Vampire Identity and Evil in George A Romero’s Martin and Anne Rice’s Interview With The Vampire.

In this paper I wish to discuss the dualistic approaches to vampires and vampirism in 1976 through the two major works of that year on vampires and their newfound identity. This new identity successfully breaks away from the previous vampire incarnations that were popularised in Bram Stoker’s Dracula and other major works of vampire fiction. It is an important ‘moment ’ in vampire literature and film where the vampire becomes the central focus of the story, and has his first opportunity to convey his own perspective of the events in the piece. He is no longer merely a monster to feature in the narrative but the driving force of the narrative itself. The vampire has become self aware, and in the two works featured here, the narrator of the tale. This is in direct contrast to the previous incarnation of the vampire, a monster that has been used in gothic literature to accentuate horror and little else. I use the term ‘modern ’ vampire when discussing the vampire who embodies the horror beast or monster spectacle, but whose character depth has not been established or realised. The self-aware vampire, that emerges in fiction and film from 1975 onwards is the postmodern vampire. It is accepted that this new breed of vampires can be categorise