What the Myth Is Really About "The blood is time" Vampire stories have survived for centuries not because they are frightening, but because they are accurate . Not literally, of course—no one believes in undead aristocrats drinking blood to live forever—but symbolically. Vampires persist because they encode uncomfortable truths about power, aging, desire, and the extraction of vitality across generations. At the surface level, the vampire myth is easy to misread. Blood looks
