The New Kind of Flesh: "Doctor, the moon has come out"

Conveys an excitement and dread about the future and innovation that tries to reach back to the early years of the twentieth century, when the concept of new kinds of flesh might have flourished in both scientific optimism and incipient fascism (with eugenics and its popular metaphors crystallizing at the intersection of both).  

That medical inclination persists here, it addresses the doctor directly, as a nurse or assistant might. Imagined von Helsing assisted by Renfield, though of course it was Dracula who was so assisted; but von Helsing and Dracula are so strongly dual to each other that von Helsing might be cast as a medicalized version of the Count, ready to drain the blood of millions for some larger purpose. In any case, when the moon comes out one suspects, as a rule, that something is about to happen.