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Meet Justin Ness and Jim Hysell. They are a couple of professors at Purdue Northwest. Now one teaches history, and the other teaches literature. Now, what are they doing on BAD? Well, they teach a class all about, get this, vampires. Justin teaches written, and visual side of vampirism showing films, and having readings about vampires like, "Dracula." Which Jim teaches the lore side of vampires. We dive deep into what a vampire is, what sorts of history was going on, and different parts of the world having vampire lore.
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