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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823519403321

Titolo

Blood thirst : 100 years of vampire fiction / / edited and with an introduction by Leonard Wolf

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1997

ISBN

0-19-972521-7

1-280-53069-3

1-4294-0042-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (385 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

WolfLeonard

Disciplina

823/.0873808375

Soggetti

Vampires

Horror tales, English

Horror tales, American

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""I: THE CLASSIC ADVENTURE TALE""; ""The Story of Chugoro""; ""Count Magnus""; ""For the Blood Is the Life""; ""The Drifting Snow""; ""Salem's Lot (excerpt)""; ""II: THE PSYCHOLOGICAL VAMPIRE""; ""Luella Miller""; ""The Transfer""; ""The Girl With the Hungry Eyes""; ""Torch Song""; ""Bellefleur (excerpt)""; ""III: THE SCIENCE FICTION VAMPIRE""; ""Shambleau""; ""The Hunger (excerpt)""; ""I Am Legend (excerpt)""; ""Vanishing Breed""; ""Unicorn Tapestry""; ""A Child of Darkness""; ""IV: THE NON-HUMAN VAMPIRE""; ""The Spider""; ""Negotium Perambulans""

Sommario/riassunto

In Blood Thirst: One Hundred Years of Vampire Fiction, Leonard Wolf gathers thirty tales in which vampires of all varieties make their ghastly presence felt. From Lafcadio Hearn, Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman, Edith Wharton, August Derleth, and Ray Bradbury to such contemporary masters as Anne Rice, Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, John Cheever, and Woody Allen, and in settings as diverse as rural New England and outer space, this collection offers readers a blood-curling compendium of the best vampire fiction since the publication of Bram Stoker's Dracula. Organized into six categories--The Classic Adventure Tale, The Psychic Vampire, The Science Fiction Vampire, The Non-Human



Vampire, The Comic Vampire, and The Heroic Vampire--the collection illustrates how the vampire's ability to draw into itself such a richness of symbolic meanings may account for the enduring appeal of the literature written about it. Here, then, is the definitive collection for aficionados and novices alike to sink their teeth into.