![]() ![]() Much of what Wright creates will be mirrored in Star Trek thirty years later. “Vampires From Space” ( Astounding Stories of Super-Science, March 1932) by Sewell Peaslee Wright is part of his Hanson of the Space Patrol series. Verrill ups the ante having an entire valley filled with giant blood-drinking plants. Hyatt Verrill is a nod to the Victorian plant vampire, “The Flowering of the Strange Orchid” by H. “The Vampires of the Desert” ( Amazing Stories, December 1929) by A. ![]() In the first volume the hero must survive on Mars and in the second the vampires follow him back to Earth. I’ve written about these early novels in my post on Alien Space Bats. The earliest is Gustave la Rouge’s The Prisoners of Mars (1908) and its sequel, The War of the Vampires (1909). They may not be Transylvanian or even human in form, but the Pulps gave us some great Space Vampires. This hasn’t stopped SF writers from offering fantastic space creatures or the creations of mad scientist that drink blood. ![]() The big difference between the two is that Frankenstein is an actual SF novel while Dracula is not. Science Fiction has always felt a bond with Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) just as it did with Frankenstein (1818). ![]()
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