Twilight (2008) feat. Julia Bianco

Hold on tight, spidermonkeys. We’re starting Supernatural Romance Month with THE supernatural romance of the millennial generation: Twilight! We traverse through a smattering of vampire lore from around the world and in literature, dissect the differences between real Quileute mythology and the white nonsense created by Stephanie Meyer, and explore the traditional Mormon messaging of this story.

Big thanks to friend-of-the-pod Julia for demanding we do this episode!

Research for this episode:

• The long and bloody history of vampires in literature - MPRNews
• A Brief History of Vampire Fiction - Wired.com
• Vampires: Fact, Fiction, and Folklore - Live Science
• The Bloody Truth About Vampires - National Geographic
• Truth Versus Twilight - The Burke Museum
• Vampires and werewolves: Rewriting religious and racial stereotyping in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight Series - Georgina Ledvinka, University of Notre Dame Australia
• The Vampire by Francis Hindes Groome

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Research & Writing by Cullen Callaghan & Hannah Sylvester. 

This episode was edited by Hannah Sylvester.

Cover Art by William Callaghan

Intro Music: "The Quest" by Scott Little.