In this essay Dean states: “Vampires do not appear in any of my novels. I have never written about a vampire in either modern or antique dress, not in pajamas, for that matter.”

However, many collectors have pointed out that the book The Haunted Earth (Lancer, 1973) does contain a vampire as a character. Also in the article “Situation Critical” (Writer’s Yearbook 85) he states “Now, Mr. King published Carrie in 1974, by which time I had at least 25 novels already in print, several of which dealt with vampires, werewolves, and things that go bump in the night.”

According to Dean:
“I had forgotten The Haunted Earth opens with a vampire, but it is not a vampire novel. Frankly, my work of that period was so mediocre that I can’t bear to reread it! I did write a novel titled A Werewolf Among Us, but the werewolf was in fact a robot. However, I did write science fiction that was on the spooky side of the genre rather than on the sparkly-gadget side.” [Source: Letter to the author]