While sharing a booth with Tyree Campbell at R2-Doso Comicon recently, he told me about reading N.K. Sandars’ introduction to the Penguin Classics Edition of the Epic of Gilgamesh. In it, Sandars claims that according to Sumerian tradition, Gilgamesh’s father was a “lillu.” Sandars further explains that a lillu can mean a fool or a buffoon. However, it can also refer a demon with vampire-like properties. Several sources I found on the web agree that lillu is the masculine form of the word that b...