Vampires have always captured the popular imagination (Buffy, Angel, Blade, Underworld, Lost Boys, etc) and I grew up reading everything from Anne Rice to good old Bram Stoker. Yes, vamps are ostensibly a supernatural/occult idea. Being the cerebral creature I am though, and having never quite weaned myself off Joseph Campbell’s psychological approach to stories, what interests me most about these bloodsucker tales is their symbolism. I mean come on, seducing, biting, sucking, drinking, swallowing - it hardly takes a genius to see the sensual appeal. Distilled carnality, inexorable appetite, unfettered by scruples… mmmmm.

My favourite vampire TV series of all time is Forever Knight, which ran from ‘92-’96. I think it’s by far the most stylish, best cast, least corny, and most human ever made. Here’s a really tasteful montage from the series set to K’s Choice’s very appropriate song Not an Addict:

Here’s a droll soundbite from Lacroix (played perfectly by Nigel Bennett):

Humanity is delicious, is it not?

And here’s a song I can say with some certainty none of you readers will remember - Lori Yates’s The Hunger, from the soundtrack of the series:

You must give in
You must give in
A game that you can’t win
The Hunger