One can tell or do whatever one wants when one is in the Opposition but once one is running a state, one cannot do that.
I always thought of vampires, especially the young-adult ones, as a metaphor for sex - sucking blood, forbidden, taboo. I think they just ooze sex. Vampires are all the big themes in life in one attractive, bloodsucking package.
So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us.