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Anarchist News: **Totw: Making a Monster**

"Fiction's greatest horrors are products of their social contexts. As someone pre-occupied with the destruction of society itself, these contexts and how stories come out of them has always fascinated me. The vampire stories we've all grown up with largely stem from anxieties of the xenosexual invader of the 1800s - A man from a far away land who threatens to penetrate and corrupt virginal European women. In Singapore and Malaysia, the pontianak arose from a period of high infant mortality and birthing deaths in a rigidly patriarch…"

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