Vampires are inherently queer, says queer-vampire-novel author

Schwab’s centuries-spanning epic Bury Our Bones links three women who gain the power to reshape their constrained, frustrated lives when they become vampires, though that experience takes radically different forms in 16th-century Spain, 19th-century England, and 21st-century Boston. One thing links them, though, beyond vampirism: All three are lesbians, and all three are in denial about their sexuality, until joining the undead releases them from societal norms.