So last year to wish all a happy All Hallow's Eve, I posted the earliest reference to a zombie in the world . So this year I thought I would post on a rather recent poem on my favorite undead creature, the vampire: The Vampire Sudden as a knife you thrust into my sorry heart and strong as a host of demons come, gaudy and libertine, to make in my corrupted mind your bed and bedlam there; --Beast, who bind me to you close as convict to his chains, as gambler to his winning streak, as drunkard to his wine, close as the carrion to its worms-- I curse you! Be accursed! I begged the sword by one swift stroke to grant me liberty; nor did my cowardice disdain less clear-cut remedies. Poison and steel, as with one voice, contemptuously refused; "You are not worthy to be free of your enslavement, fool! Suppose we saved you, even now, from her supremacy-- your kisses would resuscitate your vampire's waiting corpse!" (Baudelaire, "The Vam...
