The Penguin Book Of Vampire Stories
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Author | : Various |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 641 |
Release | : 1989-10-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0140124454 |
The terrifying and definitive collection of Vampire stories from the masters of literary horror They're lurking under the cover of darkness…and between the covers of this book. Here, in all their horror and all their glory, are the great vampires of literature: male and female, invisible and metamorphic, doomed and daring. Their skin deathly pale, their nails curved like claws, their fangs sharpened for the attack, they are gathered for the kill and for the chill, brought frighteningly to life by Bram Stoker, Fritz Leiber, Richard Matheson, Robert Bloch, Charles L. Grant, Tanith Lee, and other masters of the macabre. Careful—they are all crafty enough to steal their way into your imagination and steal away your hopes for a restful sleep.
Author | : Stephen Jones |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 584 |
Release | : 2017-10-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1510723846 |
Thirty-five uncanny and erotic tales of vampires written by supernatural fiction’s greatest mistresses of the macabre. "Fashions change, and the urbane vampire created by Byron and cemented in place by Stoker has had to move on . . . Are you, like me, ready for the new dusk?" —Ingrid Pitt, from her Introduction Prepare to arm yourself with garlic, silver bullets, and a stake. Featuring the only vampire short story written by Anne Rice, the undisputed queen of vampire literature, and boasting an autobiographical introduction and original tale by Ingrid Pitt, the star of Hammer Films' The Vampire Lovers and Countess Dracula, this is one anthology that every vampire fan—vampiric feminist or not—will want to drink deep from. From the classic stories of Edith Wharton, Edith Nesbit, Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman, and Mary Elizabeth Braddon to modern incarnations by such acclaimed writers as Poppy Z. Brite, Nancy Kilpatrick, Tanith Lee, CaitlÃn R. Kiernan, and Angela Slatter, these blood-drinkers and soul-stealers range from the sexual to the sanguinary, from the tormented Good to the unspeakably Evil. Among those memorable Children of the Night you will encounter are Chelsea Quinn Yarbro's Byronic vampire Saint-Germain, Nancy A. Collins' undead heroine Sonja Blue, Tanya Huff's vampiric detective Vicki Nelson, and Freda Warrington’s age-old lovers Karl and Charlotte. Nominated for the World Fantasy Award and the International Horror Guild Award, and now revised and updated, The Mammoth Book of Vampire Stories by Women fulfils the bloodlust of the somnambulist horror fan, delivering the ultimate bite.
Author | : Alan Ryan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1988-10-04 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780147783684 |
Featuring such masters of horror and fantasy as Bram Stoker, Fritz Leiber, and Tanith Lee, this chilling volume contains 33 short stories, all centering around the theme of the dreaded vampire in all his irresistible and fearsome forms.
Author | : Marvin Kaye |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 552 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Fantasy fiction |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Alan Ryan |
Publisher | : N A L Trade |
Total Pages | : 621 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781854710062 |
Author | : Lucy Ruth Cummins |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 2021-07-20 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1534466983 |
A mischievous young vampire and penguin trade places for a day at the zoo.
Author | : Liisa Ladouceur |
Publisher | : ECW Press |
Total Pages | : 154 |
Release | : 2013-09-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1770904301 |
A fascinating investigation of what strikes fear in an immortal’s heart Vampires exist. And in every culture with a legend about bloodsuckers that rise from the grave to prey upon the living, there are rules and rituals for how to destroy them. How to Kill a Vampire is the first book to focus specifically on all known ways to prevent vampirism, protect oneself against attacks, and ultimately how to destroy the undead, as documented in folklore as well as horror film, TV, and books. Covering everything from obscure legends to contemporary blockbusters, Ladouceur’s unique approach to vampires traces the evolution of how to kill the fictional creatures and celebrates the most important slayers. In exploring how and why we create these monsters and the increasingly complex ways in which we destroy them, the book not only serves as a handy guide to the history and modern role of the vampire, it reveals much about the changing nature of human fears.
Author | : Jörg Waltje |
Publisher | : Peter Lang |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9780820474205 |
What is it about vampires that fascinates the human imagination? Blood Obsession closely scrutinizes theories of Sigmund Freud and Tzvetan Todorov and arrives at a model of the vampire as the perfect representative of genre for a variety of reasons - the vampire figure appeals to its audience because of an interdependency of looplike mental and narrative structures that lure both reader and writer incessantly back to the genre. At the same time, this book provides the reader with a thorough survey of literary and filmic vampires in both adult and juvenile fictions. Lastly, it blends the realms of legal and literary history by highlighting the changes the image of the serial killer, a close relative of the vampire, underwent at the end of the twentieth century. Blood Obsession is a highly enlightening study for the general reader as well as for students of film, literature, and popular culture.
Author | : Mary Y. Hallab |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 181 |
Release | : 2010-03-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1438428588 |
Examines the enormous popular appeal of vampires from early Greek and Slavic folklore to present-day popular culture.
Author | : Miriam Borham-Puyal |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 139 |
Release | : 2020-01-15 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1000029638 |
This book explores the concept of liminality in the representation of women in eighteenth and nineteenth century literature, as well as in contemporary rewritings, such as novels, films, television shows, videogames, and graphic novels. In particular, the volume focuses on vampires, prostitutes, quixotes, and detectives as examples of new women who inhabit the margins of society and populate its narratives. Therefore, it places together for the first time four important liminal identities, while it explores a relevant corpus that comprises four centuries and several countries. Its diachronic, transnational, and comparative approach emphasizes the representation across time and space of female sexuality, gender violence, and women’s rights, also employing a liminal stance in its literary analysis: facing the past in order to understand the present. By underlining the dialogue between past and present this monograph contributes to contemporary debates on the representation of women and the construction of femininity as opposed to hegemonic masculinity, for it exposes the line of thought that has brought us to the present moment, hence, challenging assumed stereotypes and narratives. In addition, by using popular narratives and media, the present work highlights the value of literature, films, or alternative forms of storytelling to understand how women’s place in society, their voice, and their presence have been and are still negotiated in spaces of visibility, agency, and power.