1. Introduction Nowadays, literature as well as new media offers a wide range of mysterious, supernatural and occult stories dealing with vampires, demons and other forces of darkness. Even though they are all dealing with different issues, almost all of the stories have something in common – alterity. Originally, the concept of alterity was established by Emmanuel Lévinas under the title Altérité et transcendence (1995) and implies a philosophical meaning with the assumption of the existence of a second identity. Actually, this philosophical meaning matches with som...

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