Thomas Sipos takes the mythological blood-suckers (vampires) combines them with the intellectual ones (communists) in his novel Vampire Nation.

The novel's set in the 1980s, when Ronald Reagan is in the White House, and Transylvania -- home of Count Dracula -- is still firmly behind the Iron Curtain. The main character is Henry Willoughby, a director who just wants to make a good old-fashioned witch movie. He gets a Hollywood studio to front the cash for it, but his backers constantly push for changes, finally sending him to Romania (home to Transylvania) to scout locations.

Willoughby's flabbergasted by the request -- what does the land of vampires have to do with witches? --but he goes along with it because he's desperate to get his movie made. He finds an entirely different kind of desperation waiting for him in Romania.