Michael Sims short story “All The Dead Are Vampires”, he describes a little portion of his connection to death and some of the knowledge he had about vampires specifically during the 18th century. In the 18th century, it was believed that after death many people became vampires because of the bad decisions they made during life. During that time people got “to see corpses” (Sims 11) very often and there also was very little information about dead bodies and how they decompose, so when they saw these bodies while decomposing it frightened them because they did not know what was happening. While bodies decompose, they obviously look different than from when they were alive and since people did not understand why they looked different they