Question

select the text that has a more objective tone.
in all the darkest pages of the malign supernatural there is no more terrible tradition than that of the vampire, a pariah even among demons. foul are his ravages; gruesome and seemingly barbaric are the ancient and approved methods by which folk must rid themselves of this hideous pest.
the first recorded accounts of vampires follow a consistent pattern: some unexplained misfortune would befall a person, family or town—perhaps a drought dried up crops, or an infectious disease struck. before science could explain weather patterns and germ theory, any bad event for which there was not an obvious cause might be blamed on a vampire.
from benjamin radford, \vampires: fact, fiction and folklore,\ copyright 2014 by purch and from montague summers, \vampires and vampirism,\ copyright 1929 by e. p. dutton

Explanation:

The first text uses words like "malign", "terrible", "foul", "hideous" which are subjective and emotional. The second text simply states historical patterns of vampire - related beliefs without emotional or judgmental language, just presenting facts about how bad events were attributed to vampires before scientific explanations were available.

Answer:

The second text: "The first recorded accounts of vampires follow a consistent pattern: Some unexplained misfortune would befall a person, family or town—perhaps a drought dried up crops, or an infectious disease struck. Before science could explain weather patterns and germ theory, any bad event for which there was not an obvious cause might be blamed on a vampire."