The myth of the vampire endures. For two centuries, this creature has been a constant presence in popular culture – on the page and on the screen – reinventing itself with every age and inspiring new fanged subcultures that defy anyone who dares to dismiss it as a relic of a bygone era.

They come back dressed for new times. The latest incarnation arrives in V E Schwab’s Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil (2025) , a furious novel in which women find freedom by trading mortality for monstrosity. Schwab’s vampires are not cursed, depraved creatures of the night. Their transformation does not damn them; rather, it gives them much-needed agency and autonomy. The novel interrogates the gendered nature of moral judgment—how condemnation can become a kind of transformation, and how those bran

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