Abstract

In her stories Vampiro and Un destripador de antaño, Emilia Pardo Bazán reflects upon, the figure of the vampire and the sacamantecas from the perspective of realist horror and supernatural horror. In her tales, the Galician writer departs from the current portrait of the monster, presenting him as integrated into a society in which his transgressions are the norm. In both stories, the vampirism portrayed by Pardo Bazán goes beyond the romantic depiction and anticipates some common qualities of the postmodern vampire, such as its social character, free will and distancing from magical and religious folklore.