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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 Read More...

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The Vampyre, and Other Tales of the Macabre
by Robert Morrison, Chris Baldick. 292 pgs.

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John Polidori's classic tale "The Vampyre"(1819), was a product of the same ghost-story competition that produced Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. The present volume selects thirteen other tales of mystery and the macabre, including the works of James Hogg, J.S. LeFanu, Letitia Landon, Edward Bulwer, and William Carelton. The introduction surveys the genesis and influence of "The Vampyre" and its central themes and techniques, while the Appendices contain material closely associated with its composition and publication, including Lord Byron's prose fragment "Augustus Darvell."

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CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INTRODUCTION

NOTE ON THE TEXT

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

CHRONOLOGY OF THE MAGAZINES

THE VAMPYRE

SIR GUY EVELING'S DREAM

CONFESSIONS OF A REFORMED RIBBONMAN

MONOS AND DAIMONOS

THE MASTER OF LOGAN

THE VICTIM

SOME TERRIBLE LETTERS FROM SCOTLAND

THE CURSE

LIFE IN DEATH

MY HOBBY,--RATHER

THE RED MAN

POST-MORTEM RECOLLECTIONS OF A MEDICAL LECTURER

THE BRIDE OF LINDORF

PASSAGE IN THE SECRET HISTORY OF AN IRISH COUNTESS

APPENDIX A PRELIMINARIES FOR THE VAMPYRE

APPENDIX B NOTE ON THE VAMPYRE

APPENDIX C AUGUSTUS DARVELL

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

EXPLANATORY NOTES
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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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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 Monster with a Thousand Faces: Guises of the Vampire in Myth and Literature

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Foreword

Part One: Guises of the Vampire: an Inventory

Part Two: The Vampire Motif in Weird Literature

Addendum

Index
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Vampire Gothic, in American Literary History
by Teresa A. Goddu. 17 pgs.

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

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The Blood Is the Life: Vampires in Literature

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

The Vampire and the Literary Iradition

1: A Parasitic Perspective: Romantic Participation and Polidori's the Vampyre

2: Carmilla and the Gothic Legacy: Victorian Transformations of Supernatural Horror

3: Dracula Meets the New Woman

4: The Indian Vampire: Nomen et Numen

The Vampire and the Modern World

5: New Life for an Old Tradition: Anne Rice and Vampire Literature

6: Anne Rice's Protestant Vampires

7: Vampiric Appetite in I Am Legend, 'Salem's Lot, and the Hunger

8: The Pretense That the World Is Sane: Saberhagen' S Dracula

9: S. P. Somtow's Timmy Valentine: The Vampire as Archetype and Fragmented Reflection

The Vampire and Alternate History

10: Introducing Count Saint-Germain: Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's Heroic Vampire

11: Toward the Vampire as Savior: Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's Saint-Germain Series Compared with Edward Bulwer-Lytton's Zanoni

12: Vampire-Human Symbiosis in Fevre Dream and the Empire of Fear

13: Ourselves Expanded: The Vampire's Evolution from Bram Stoker to Kim Newman

14: Vampires in Space: Fantasy and Science Fiction in Colin Wilson's the Mind Parasites and the Space Vampires

The Vampire and Gender/Sexuality

15: Daughters of Lilith: Women Vampires in Popular Literature

16: Making the Implicit, Explicit: Vampire Erotica and Pornography

17: Vampire Variations: Tanith Lee's Evolution of the Genre

18: Nancy A. Collins's Vampire Noir: an Overview of the Sonja Blue Series

The Vampire and the Scholar

19: Vampire Fiction and Criticism: a Core Collection

Contributors

Index
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The Vampire Lectures
by Laurence A. Rickels. 360 pgs.

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In My Preface

Lecture One

Lecture Two

Lecture Three

Lecture Four

Lecture Five

Lecture Six

Lecture Seven

Lecture Eight

Lecture Nine

Lecture Ten

Lecture Eleven

Lecture Twelve

Lecture Thirteen

Lecture Fourteen

Lecture Fifteen

Lecture Sixteen

Lecture Seventeen

Lecture Eighteen

Lecture Nineteen

Lecture Twenty

Lecture Twenty-One

Lecture Twenty-Two

Lecture Twenty-Three

Lecture Twenty-Four

Lecture Twenty-Five

Lecture Twenty-Six

References

Filmography
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Songs of Love and Death: The Classical American Horror Film of the 1930s (Chap. 1 "Dracula: The Amorous Death" and Chap. 11 "Dracula's Daughter: Vampirism as Psychosis")
by Michael Sevastakis. 209 pgs.

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This book examines eleven horror films in-depth and their relationships to Romantic Gothic literary conventions--mainly, but not solely, found in works dating from the 18th and 19th centuries. To illustrate the use of these conventions in film, Sevastakis analyzes shots from scenes and sequences of all films discussed. Due to the large quantity of horror films produced during this period, the films in this book have been selected on the basis of their supernatural and preternatural content, and on four conventions predicated on fictional literary models dealing with the villain-hero.

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Copyright Acknowledgments

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART I THE ROMANTIC AS NECROPHILE

Chapter 1 Dracula: the Amorous Death

Chapter 2 The Mummy: Through Centuries Of Love

Chapter 3 White Zombie: "Death and Love Together Mated"

PART II THE ROMANTIC AS MODERN PROMETHEUS

Chapter 4 Frankenstein: Are Men Not Gods?

Chapter 6 The Bride of Frankenstein: a Friend For the Enemy of God

PART III THE ROMANTIC AS A SYMBOL OF DESTINY

Chapter 7 The Invisible Man: "A Reign Of Terror"

Chapter 8 The Devil Doll: "Three Lives Must Pay"

PART IV THE ROMANTIC AS TORMENTED HERO

Chapter 9 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: the Beast In the Man

Notes

Chapter 11 Dracula's Daughter: Vampirism As Psychosis

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

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Psychological Reflections on Cinematic Terror: Jungian Archetypes in Horror Films (Chap. 4 "Vampires: Lonely Children of the Night")
by James F. Iaccino. 217 pgs.

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In this examination of the psychology of terror, Iaccino uses Jungian archetypes to analyze significant works in the horror film genre. In the past, Jungian archetypes have been used to interpret mythologies, to examine great works of literature, and to explain why sexual stereotypes persist in our society. Here, for the first time, Iaccino applies such models as the "Cursed Wanderers," the "Warrior Amazons," the "Random Destroyers," and the "Techno-Myths" to highlight recurrent themes in a wide range of films, from early classics such as Nosferatu to the contemporary Nightmare on Elm Street and Alien series. With this innovative approach, Iaccino gains a new perspective on the psychology of the often powerful compulsion to be scared.

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Preface

One: Introduction to the Horror Archetypes

1: Description of the Major Archetypes Used in the Horror Film Genre

Notes

2: An Historical Perspective on the Horror Archetypes

Notes

Two: The Orphan Archetype in Horror

3: From Psycho to the Shining: Victims of Cruel Surroundings

Notes

Three: The Cursed Wanderer Archetype in Horror

4: Vampires: the Lonely Children of the Night, Part 1

Notes

5: Werewolves: the Lonely Children of the Night, Part 2

Four: The Mad Magician Archetype in Horror

6: Frankenstein: the Alchemic "New Age" Creator

Notes

Five: The Shadow Abomination Archetype in Horror

7: From Them! to the Blob: Technologically Produced Behemoths

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Six: The Changing Female Archetype in Horror

8: From Halloween to Aliens: Outdated Martyr to New Age Warrior

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Seven: Avenging versus Random Destroyer Archetypes in Horror

9: The Living Dead Trilogy and Other Tales: Horrific Parables of Destruction

Notes

Eight: More Contemporary Archetypes in Horror

10: From Dr. Phibes to a Nightmare on Elm Street: the Dark Humor Shadow Tricksters

11: From Re-Animator to Lifeforce: the Techno-Mythic Archetypes

Notes

Appendix A: Selected Horror Filmography

Appendix B: Horror Films by Archetype

Bibliography

Index

Cabout the Author
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The Naked and the Undead: Evil and the Appeal of Horror (Chap. 4 "Seductive Vampires")
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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Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction: Evil in Horror Films -- a Feminist Framework

Part One: Mad Scientists and Monstrous Mothers

Chapter One: Dr. Frankenstein's Progeny

Chapter Two: Women and Bugs

Chapter Three: Monstrous Flesh

Part Two: From Vampires to Slashers

Chapter Four: Seductive Vampires

Chapter Five: The Slasher's Blood Lust

Chapter Six: Feminist Slashers?

Part Three: Sublime Spectacles of Disaster

Chapter Seven: Uncanny Horror

Chapter Eight: Graphic Horror

Epilogue: The Appeal of Horror

Filmography

Index
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What Evil Means to Us (Chap. Six "Splatter Movies or Shiva? A Culture of Vampires")
by C. Fred Alford. 183 pgs.

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C. Fred Alford interviewed working people, prisoners, and college students in order to discover how people experience evil -- in themselves, in others, and in the world. What people meant by evil, he found, was a profound, inchoate feeling of dread so overwhelming that they tried to inflict it on others to be rid of it themselves. A leather-jacketed emergency medical technician, for example, one of the many young people for whom vampires are oddly seductive icons of evil, said he would "give anything to be a vampire".
Drawing on psychoanalytic theory, Alford argues that the primary experience of evil is not moral but existential. The problems of evil are complicated by the terror it evokes, a threat to the self so profound it tends to be isolated deep in the mind. Alford suggests an alternative to this bleak vision. The exercise of imagination -- in particular, imagination that takes the form of a shared narrative -- offers an active and practical alternative to the contemporary experience of evil. Our society suffers from a paucity of shared narratives and the creative imagination they inspire.

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What Evil Means to Us

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Preface

One "I Jelt Evil"

Two Evit Js Pleasure in Hurting and Lack of Remorse

Three: The Ground of Evil Js Dread

Four Suffering Evil, Doing Evil

Five Identifying with Eichmann

Six Splatter Movies or Shiva? a Culture of Vampires

Seven "Evil Spelled Backward Is Live"

Eight Evil Is No-Thing

Nine Scales of Evil

Appendix I: Asking about Evil

Appendix 2: Informants and Questions

Notes

Works Cited

Index
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The Gothic World of Anne Rice
by Gary Hoppenstand, Ray B. Browne. 252 pgs.

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The Gothic World of Anne Rice

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Introduction: Vampires, Witches, Mummies, and Other Charismatic Personalities: Exploring the Anne Rice Phenomenon

The Lived World of Anne Rice's Novels

The Anthropological Vision of Anne Rice

Gothicism, Vampirism, and Seduction: Anne Rice's "The Master of Rampling Gate"

Development of the Byronic Vampire: Byron, Stoker, Rice

Anne Rice: Raising Holy Hell, Harlequin Style

Eroticism as Moral Fulcrum in Rice's Vampire Chronicles

Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire: Novel versus Film

Let Us Prey: Religious Codes and Rituals in the Vampire Lestat

Anne Rice's the Tale of the Body Thief and the Astral Projection Literary Tradition

We're Talking Science, Man, Not Voodoo: Genetic Disaster in Anne Rice's Mayfair Witch Chronicles

He's Not One of Them: Michael Curry and the Interpellation of the Self in Anne Rice's the Witching Hour

The Historical Novels of Anne Rice

Degrees of Darkness: Gens de Couleur Libre Ethnic Identity in the Feast of All Saints

The World of Forever Knight: a Television Tribute to Anne Rice's New Age Vampire

Contributors

Index
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The Primitive City of Timbuctoo (Chap. 6 "Genie, Fetish and Vampire")
by Horace Miner. 302 pgs.

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PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

CONTENTS

Illustrations

Chapter 1: THE RISE AND FALL OF TIMBUCTOO

Chapter 2: THE PEOPLE OF TIMBUCTOO

Chapter 3: THE CITY QUARTERS

Chapter 4: ELEMENTARY ECONOMICS

Chapter 5: ISLAM

Chapter 6: GENIE, FETISH, AND VAMPIRE

Chapter 7: THE MOON YEAR

Chapter 8: KINSHIP AND THE FAMILY

Chapter 9: CIRCUMCISION AND AGE-GRADES

Chapter 10: MATING

Chapter 11: BIRTH--A FAMILY FOCUS

Chapter 12: DEATH AND AFTERLIFE

Chapter 13: PATTERNS OF CONFLICT

Chapter 14: CITY-FOLK

REFERENCES

GLOSSARY

INDEX
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Sadism and Masochism: The Psychology of Hatred and Cruelty, Vol. Two (Chap. 17 "Cannibalism, Necrophilism, and Vampirism")
by Wilhelm Stekel, Louise Brink. 476 pgs.

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Contents of Volume Two

Sadism and Masochism: Volume Two

II: A Case of Complicated Parapathy with Sa Distic and Paranoid Obsessions (suspi Cion of A Beginning Schizophrenia)

XIII: Case Histories

XIV: The Tragedy of an Analyst

XV: Self-Mutilation and Self-Accusation

XVI: Analysis of A Masochist

XVII: Cannibalism, Necrophilism, and Vampirism

XVIII: The Epileptic Symptom Complex and Its Analytic Treatment

XIX: Analysis of A Case of Epilepsy

XX: Retrospect and Prospect

Notes to Volume Two

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