Volume V Special Issue V November 2025

Name of Author : Dr. SATHISH BALAKUMARAN

Title of the paper : Digitizing the Gothic: How the Digital Age Reimagines Vampiric Narratives

Abstract: The Gothic vampire, long associated with transgression, desire, and the uncanny, has undergone considerable changes in the digital age. This article investigates how vampiric tales are being transformed by digital platforms such as streaming services, fanfiction archives, interactive games, and social media. The study investigates how digital storytelling blurs the boundaries between reader and author, canon and fan creation, by analyzing adaptations such as Castlevania, Twilight series, vampire dairies, online retellings of Dracula, and the viral spread of vampire tropes on platforms such as YouTube and audiobooks, among others. These new ways of involvement not only democratize Gothic literature, but also imbue it with modern concerns about identity, technology, and immortality. The study examines how the vampire continues to evolve as attractive as ever in a hyper connected, algorithm driven society, using the lenses of digital humanities and literary theory.

Keywords : Gothic literature, digital humanities, vampire narratives, fan culture, transmedia storytelling

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Page Number : 72-74