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Bram Stoker's Dracula, Interview with the Vampire.
Vampires, at their very best, terrify us because they are so starkly similar to us and yet so profoundly sinister, lustful and cruel. Vampires are both more demonic in their passions and more cerebral in their conversation and thought than human beings. By contrast, zombies don't stick so deep to me. They're less human, more savage and animal; slower, stupider. Zombies need sheer numbers or inevitability to elicit a shiver, they're just braindead, senseless attackers. Vampires have a will. Vampires are the most scary thing I can think of, human beings, at their emotionally most volatile and intellectually and physically most capable.