Monster House presents.

Presents.

It's actually quite unlike anything we've ever seen before.

A giant hairy creature, part 8, part man.

In larkness, a 24 mile long bottomless lake in the Highlands of Scotland.

It's a creature known as the Loch Ness Monster. Oh, yeah. Monster Talk.

Welcome to Monster Talk, the science show about monsters. I'm Blake Smith.

And I'm Karen Stolzno.

You know here at Monster Talk Manor every day is part of the spooky season but even

we can't deny that as autumn rolls in and the leaves turn blood-stained red and the

pumpkin spice begins to fill our veins, we do get a bit excited.

Speaking of blood, looks like we're going to be focusing on our favorite blood-sucking

creatures from legend and lore this year, starting with this very informative discussion with today's

guest. Nick Groom is a professor of literature in English at the University of Macau and

previously held positions at the Universities of Bristol at

Stanford, University of Chicago, and at Exeter and he's the author of The

Vampire A New History from Yale University press among many others.

Join us now as we discuss the history of vampires on...

Monster Doc. Welcome to the show Professor Nick Groom.

Thank you very good to be here.

So I'll have to give a little bit of background story on how I found you. We have a number of vampire related projects

which are going on at the moment. So I think the Halloween season is going to be very

...