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A Biologist's Guide to The Undead: Revisiting Early Vampires (2025) - The October Rite
11 minutes Posted Oct 6, 2025 at 11:06 am.
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When I'm not reading books into a microphone, I have a degree in biomedical sciences. 

Unbelievably, our two worlds are about to collide as we revisit the stories of early vampires and examine the likely biomedical causes of the descriptions.

I'm delighted to say that your high school chemistry class is about to come roaring back.

Forget Dracula, the scariest thing we'll encounter today is the ideal gas law...

After all, pressurized vampires equal necrosis, rigor, & trauma.

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Marked explicit for pretty gross post-mortem biology