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Blood thirst : 100 years of vampire fiction / edited and with an introduction by Leonard Wolf.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vampires--Fiction.
- Vampires.
- Horror tales, English.
- Horror tales, American.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (385 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- ""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""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-972521-7
- 1-280-53069-3
- 1-4294-0042-0
- OCLC:
- 252600541
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