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Vampire - in folklore, animated corpse that sucks the blood of humans. Belief in vampires has existed from the earliest times and has given rise to an amalgam of legends and superstitions. They were most commonly thought of as spirits or demons that left their graves at night to seek and enslave their victims; it was thought that the victims themselves became vampires. The vampire could be warded

16 of the Best Books and Articles on: The Vampire in Literature

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The Blood Is the Life: Vampires in Literature » Read Now
by Leonard G. Heldreth, Mary Pharr. 254 pgs.

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...The Blood Is the Life: Vampires in Literature edited by Leonard...The blood is the life : vampires in literature / edited by Leonard G. Hel...History and criticism. 3...
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The Monster with a Thousand Faces: Guises of the Vampire in Myth and Literature » Read Now
by Brian J. Frost. 152 pgs.

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Brian Frost chronicles the history of the vampire in myth and literature, providing a sumptuous repast for all devotees of the bizarre. In a wide-ranging survey, including plot summaries of hundreds of novels and short stories, the reader meets an amazing assortment of vampires from the pages of...
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Brian Frost chronicles the history of the vampire in myth and literature, providing a sumptuous repast for all devotees of the bizarre. In a wide-ranging survey, including plot summaries of hundreds of novels and short stories, the reader meets an amazing assortment of vampires from the pages of weird fiction, ranging from the 10,000-year-old femme fatale in Robert E. Howard’s Conan the Conqueror to the malevolent fetus in Eddy C. Bertin’s “Something Small, Something Hungry.” Nostalgia buffs will enjoy a discussion of the vampire yarns in the pulp magazines of the interwar years, while fans of contemporary vampire fiction will also be sated.
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The Vampire in Nineteenth-Century English Literature » Read Now
by Carole A. Senf. 204 pgs.

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Dirty Mamma: Horror, Vampires, and the Maternal in Late Nineteenth-Century Gothic Fiction, in Critical Survey » Read Now
by Angelica Michelis. 18 pgs.

Collections: Literature, Psychology, Entire Library
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The Living Dead: A Study of the Vampire in Romantic Literature » Read Now
by James B. Twitchell. 224 pgs.

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...Dead A Study of the Vampire in Romantic Literature James B. Twitchell...History and criticism. 3. Vampires in literature. 4. Romanticism I. Title...extended appraisal of...
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The Naked and the Undead: Evil and the Appeal of Horror (Chap. Four "Seductive Vampires") » Read Now
by Cynthia A. Freeland. 320 pgs.

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This text examines philosophical aspects of horror films from a feminist perspective. It focuses on a select body of films, demonstrating how the genre is capable of deep philosophical reflection about the existence and the nature of evil.
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Vampire Gothic, in American Literary History » Read Now
by Teresa A. Goddu. 17 pgs.

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...While the three books in this review do not...exclusively on American literature and culture or even...Nina Auerbach Our Vampires, Ourselves , a study...Gothic Images of...
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Vampires, Mummies, and Liberals: Bram Stoker and the Politics of Popular Fiction » Read Now
by David Glover. 222 pgs.

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By way of a long overdue return to the novels, short stories, essays, journalism, and correspondence of Bram Stoker, this book reconstructs the cultural and political world that gave birth to Dracula.
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Victorian Literature and the Anorexic Body (Chap. 4 "Vampirism and the Anorexic Paradigm") » Read Now
by Anna Krugovoy Silver. 220 pgs.

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Anna Silver examines the ways nineteenth-century British writers used physical states of the female body--hunger, appetite, fat and slenderness--in the creation of female characters. She argues that anorexia nervosa, first diagnosed in 1873, serves as a paradigm for the cultural ideal of...
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Anna Silver examines the ways nineteenth-century British writers used physical states of the female body--hunger, appetite, fat and slenderness--in the creation of female characters. She argues that anorexia nervosa, first diagnosed in 1873, serves as a paradigm for the cultural ideal of middle-class womanhood in Victorian Britain. Silver uses the works of a wide range of writers (including Charlotte Brontë, Christina Rossetti, Charles Dickens, Bram Stoker and Lewis Carroll) to demonstrate that mainstream models of middle-class Victorian womanhood share important qualities with the beliefs or behaviors of the anorexic female.
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Visions of the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Fifteenth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (Chap. 10 "The Wail of the Banshee: Vampire Ghosts, Man-Eating Ghosts, and Other Malevolent Spirits in Irish Fairy Tales" and Chap. 15 "Frankenstein and Dracula: The Question of Influence") » Read Now
by Allienne R. Becker. 212 pgs.

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This exciting collection of essays explores the fantastic in world literature, art, theater, film, and popular culture. Highlights include artwork by Edward Carlos and the essay Staging the Phantasmagorical: The Theatrical Challenges and Rewards of William Butler Yeats by internationally acclaimed...
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This exciting collection of essays explores the fantastic in world literature, art, theater, film, and popular culture. Highlights include artwork by Edward Carlos and the essay Staging the Phantasmagorical: The Theatrical Challenges and Rewards of William Butler Yeats by internationally acclaimed Yeats scholar James W. Flannery. Readers will be delighted by the wit of British author Brian Aldiss in his essay If Hamlet's Uncle Had Been a Nicer Guy. From new insights into the connections between Dracula and Frankenstein to a discussion of the Internet, the lively volume offers a diverse look at fantasy and science fiction.
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The Gothic World of Stephen King: Landscape of Nightmares ("Blood, Eroticism, and the Vampire in Twentieth-Century Popular Literature" begins on p. 20) » Read Now
by Gary Hoppenstand, Ray B. Browne. 143 pgs.

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Stephen King’s popularity lies in his ability to reinterpret the standard Gothic tale in new and exciting ways. Through his eyes, the conventional becomes unconventional and wonderful. King thus creates his own Gothic world and then interprets it for us. This book analyzes King’s...
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Stephen King’s popularity lies in his ability to reinterpret the standard Gothic tale in new and exciting ways. Through his eyes, the conventional becomes unconventional and wonderful. King thus creates his own Gothic world and then interprets it for us. This book analyzes King’s interpretations and his mastery of popular literature. The essays discuss adolescent revolt, the artist as survivor, the vampire in popular literature, and much more.
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The Gothic World of Anne Rice (Includes discussion of vampires in literature) » Read Now
by Gary Hoppenstand, Ray B. Browne. 252 pgs.

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...literature. 7. Vampires in literature. 8. Mummies...classic horror literature themes. She states in Teresa Simmonss...appearing in The Vampire Companion...writers of...
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Anne Rice: A Critical Companion (Includes discussion of vampires in literature) » Read Now
by Jennifer Smith. 195 pgs.

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Anne Rice's fame rests on her supernatural tales, but she is far more than a horror novelist. She goes beyond the genre by changing the classic horror stories into myths, fairy tales, and nightmares in order to explore philosophical questions of life, death, evil, and the meaning of existence. This...
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Anne Rice's fame rests on her supernatural tales, but she is far more than a horror novelist. She goes beyond the genre by changing the classic horror stories into myths, fairy tales, and nightmares in order to explore philosophical questions of life, death, evil, and the meaning of existence. This is the most up-to-date analysis of her work and includes individual chapters on each of her vampire, mummy, and witch novels, including Memnoch the Devil (1995). A perfect companion for students and Anne Rice fans, this study also features a biographical chapter and a chapter which discusses her use of the supernatural, gothic, horror, and fantasy genres.
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The Vampire Lust in D. H. Lawrence, in Studies in the Novel » Read Now
by Sung Ryol Kim. 13 pgs.

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Repossessing the Body: Transgressive Desire in "Carmilla" and Dracula, in Criticism » Read Now
by Elizabeth Signorotti. 26 pgs.

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Dictionary of Literary Themes and Motifs, Vol. II: L-Z ("Vampirism" begins on p. 1373) » Read Now
by Jean-Charles Seigneuret, A. Owen Aldridge, Armin Arnold, Peter H. Lee. 820 pgs.

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