Now that the studio has wrapped up the Tomb Raider reboot, the timing would be perfect for a return of the vampire Kain and the wraith Raziel.

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Before you start thinking that this will be a story along the lines of Abraham Lincoln, Vampire, think again.

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It is a lunge too far to claim (as one Spanish doctor has done in a published medical paper) that the vampire myth derived literally from rabies patients, misunderstood to be the walking dead.

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To modern eyes, the scythe may be best known from images of the Grim Reaper and Father Time--or as a weapon used by Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

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