The Telegraph discusses a new edition of Christopher Frayling's landmark Vampyres, and notes that the belief in vampires has been with us for centuries. The idea that the undead walk among us, and mean to do us harm dates from at least the Middle Ages, and authors have remade and transformed these very real fears into metaphors for all kinds of culture shock. Get me some hot chocolate, a nice blanket, flickering light from a fire, and a good thunderstorm. I'm ready for the next adaption of Dracula.
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September 26, 2012
Bite Me
From the Chronicle of Higher Education, an examination of the fascination with vampire lit. For more about the subject see the selected bibliography below.
Benefiel, Candace, Blood Relations: The Gothic Perversion of the Nuclear Family in Anne Rice's
Interview with the Vampire, 38 Journal of Popular Culture 261 (November 2004).Benefiel, Candace, Blood Relations: The Gothic Perversion of the Nuclear Family in Anne Rice's
The Blood Is the Life: Vampires in Literature (Leonard G. Heldreth and Mary Pharr eds.; Bowling Green State University Press, 1999).
Hollinger, Veronica, The Vampire and the Alien: Variations on the Outsider, Science Fiction Studies 145 (1989).
Senf, Carol A., The Vampire in 19th Century English Literature (Bowling Green State University Press, 1988).
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