Love these pictures. Put me in mind of the atmosphere in Suan Cooper's novel The Dark is Rising.

June!

PS The biggest surprise was people - not many, but still - clearly using generative AI. Please don't. Like all editors, surely, we would much rather have a sincere, authentic idea from YOU that is ragged around the edges than a slick piece of globo-American slop.

From the 1990s things get more plural, with for example the novel's female vampires getting their moment.

Hard to say what it all really means of course, but an insight into what frightens us.

Then in the 1970s there's a noticeable return to the expensively-dressed vampire, this time in a more suave, Bryan Ferry-ish, seductive mode.

In the 60s, the monsters seem to resurface…

and then in the late 20s/1930s, he acquires the dinner jacket and cape. Influenced by the play and Bela Lugosi film it's true, but still curious that at a time of economic depression, the great bloodsucker is presented as wealthy aristo.

But looking at book jackets since its publication in 1897, it's noticeable that publishers begin with him as a threatening monster...

The Bee exists partly to challenge the processes that determine which creative work gets seen, remembered and erased. We also aim to recognise the ways in which class shapes people’s lives and artists’ art.

The Two Roberts is as good a demonstration as any of why that matters.