The idea of creating an Anti Vampire Center has its roots in Mario Corte's stories of Vampires and in the philosophy of life that derives from them.

They are "true" stories, in the sense that the writer creates but does not "invent" his stories; just as he creates but does not "invent" his Vampires. Although they contain elements of fantasy, his stories are not the fruit of his imagination, rather they are true stories. For the most part Corte writes stories about "human" Vampires, those who move in our own world, act by day, bear our names and practice our professions. Beings whose bite is no less lethal than that of Dracula, Carmilla or Vurdalak; beings who are at least as merciless as their counterparts from the afterlife, and even more cunning than them. We encounter these beings every day.

Identikit of the Vampire

Let's try to understand exactly what the individual we are dealing with is like. The Vampire is someone who feeds on the energy of others, on the life force of his fellow beings. He has a preference for those who are part of the "species of the innocent", and therefore time and again - in fact often, unfortunately - for children. He is a creature that needs to draw energy from others because he is not satisfied with himself and feels that he does not have sufficient reserves of his own to adequately face the demands of the world around him.

He is someone who, while still in this life, is already profoundly 'dead' (the Non-Dead of vampiric literature in fact), because he essentially feels a nothingness deep inside him; he deludes himself that he can conceal this shame by behaving in such a way as to deceive or mortify or humiliate others at every opportunity.

Every action of his, every word, every gesture represents a "theft of energy", that is, of blood. He is someone who feels guilty about being the way he is. But because he feels that the vacuum produced in him by that guilt cannot be filled, he ends up using that guilt to tune in to the frequencies of demons and witches - guilty par excellence - evoking the monsters of the abyss from the mire of his feelings, and unleashing their fury, which once unleashed is uncontrollable.

In our opinion, therefore, the Vampire of literature is nothing more than a metaphor for a type of human that is extremely diffused in our world, and the vampiric virus has been an epidemic of vast proportions for some time now.

Unfortunately, if one begins to investigate this phenomenon, one realizes that it is not enough to recognize the "social" Vampire in the figure of those who are powerful and arrogant - which certain political interpretations of the vampiric legend had already broadly stigmatized - but it is necessary to focus one's attention on the vast horde of beings who appear to be harmless but who, unable to open themselves up to life, drag on their existence by drawing "modest quantities" of vital energy from their fellow beings, especially from those who are furthest removed from this system, namely the "innocents". In this way, even certain persons who might seem innocuous, or totally committed to the struggle against the hypocrisy and injustices of society, may be shown to be merciless persecutors.