The Vampire in Literature
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 Read More...
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The Vampire in Literature
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The Monster with a Thousand Faces: Guises of the Vampire in Myth and Literature
by Brian J. Frost. 152 pgs.
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Dirty Mamma: Horror, Vampires, and the Maternal in Late Nineteenth-Century Gothic Fiction, in Critical Survey
by Angelica Michelis. 18 pgs.
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This Thing of Darkness: Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness (Chap. One "Twentieth-Century Vampire Literature: Intimations of Evil and Power")
by Richard Paul Hamilton, Margaret Sönser Breen. 159 pgs.
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The Naked and the Undead: Evil and the Appeal of Horror (Chap. Four "Seductive Vampires")
by Cynthia A. Freeland. 320 pgs.
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Vampires, Mummies, and Liberals: Bram Stoker and the Politics of Popular Fiction
by David Glover. 222 pgs.
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Victorian Literature and the Anorexic Body (Chap. 4 "Vampirism and the Anorexic Paradigm")
by Anna Krugovoy Silver. 220 pgs.
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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)
by Gary Hoppenstand, Ray B. Browne. 143 pgs.
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The Gothic World of Anne Rice (Includes discussion of vampires in literature)
by Gary Hoppenstand, Ray B. Browne. 252 pgs.
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Repossessing the Body: Transgressive Desire in "Carmilla" and Dracula, in Criticism
by Elizabeth Signorotti. 26 pgs.
