Word: stoker
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rice's Interview With a Vampire, "Dracula" gives vampirism an allegorical overtone of sexuality out of control. Periodic shots of blood cells under a microscope underscore the linkage of vampirism, sex, corruption, death, and, you guessed it, AIDS by implication. But even this association is fairly true to Bram Stoker's book. Stoker, by the way, died of syphilis...