Name: Monsters Among Us
Description: Monsters. Ghosts. Zombies. From horror movies to Halloween, we see the creatures that go bump in the night everywhere, but where did they come from? The primal fears of our ancestors fueled the stories that lived on through legend, page, and screen. Join us as we peer into the histories of some of the most prevalent creatures in pop culture, including vampires, werewolves, zombies, and ghosts.

Monsters. Ghosts. Zombies. From horror movies to Halloween, we see the creatures that go bump in the night everywhere, but where did they come from? The primal fears of our ancestors fueled the stories that lived on through legend, page, and screen. Join us as we peer into the histories of some of the most prevalent creatures in pop culture, including vampires, werewolves, zombies, and ghosts. 

The presence of vampires throughout history, culminating in the writing of Bram Stoker's Dracula, literature's most famous bloodsucker.

Vampires: From Folklore to Literature

The popularity of Dracula cemented the vampire into fiction and popular culture, and was supplemented by the invention of cinema.

Vampires: The Rise of Dracula

The idea of the dead coming back to life haunted stories for centuries.

The Undead

The idea of a parallel world of the spirits has persisted since the beginning of civilization. Ghosts returning to earth, or remaining as echoes of the past, are explored in this episode.

Monsters Among Us

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