The Penguin Book Of Vampire Stories

Author : Various
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0140124454
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Penguin Book of Vampire Stories written by Various and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1989-10-03 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Alan Ryan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780147783684
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Penguin Book of Vampire Stories Counter Display written by Alan Ryan and published by . This book was released on 1988-10-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Alan Ryan
Publisher : N A L Trade
ISBN 13 : 9781854710062
Total Pages : 621 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Penguin book of vampire stories written by Alan Ryan and published by N A L Trade. This book was released on 1991 with total page 621 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Sims
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408828537
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dracula's Guest written by Michael Sims and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-10-03 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even in the twenty-first century, the undead walk among us... Before Twilight and True Blood, vampires haunted the nineteenth century, when brilliant writers indulged their bloodthirsty imaginations, culminating in Bram Stoker's legendary 1897 novel, Dracula. Acclaimed author and anthologist Michael Sims brings together the finest vampire stories of the Victorian era in a unique collection that highlights their cultural variety. Beginning with the supposedly true accounts that captivated Byron and Shelley, the stories range from Aleksei Tolstoy's tale of a vampire family to Fitz James O'Brien's invisible monster to Mary Elizabeth Braddon's rich and sinister widow, Good Lady Ducayne. Sims also includes a nineteenth-century travel tour of Transylvanian superstitions, and finishes the collection with Stoker's own Dracula's Guest - a chapter omitted from his landmark novel. Vampires captivated Victorian society, and these wonderful stories demonstrate how Romantic and Victorian writers refined the raw ore of peasant superstition into a whole vampire mythology of aristocratic decadence and innocence betrayed.

Author : Mary Y. Hallab
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438428588
Total Pages : 181 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vampire God written by Mary Y. Hallab and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2010-03-30 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the enormous popular appeal of vampires from early Greek and Slavic folklore to present-day popular culture.

Author : Alan Ryan
Publisher : Doubleday Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vampires written by Alan Ryan and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1987 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of thirty vampire stories by such authors as Bram Stoker, Fritz Leiber, Stephen King, Richard Matheson, Robert Bloch, Charles L. Grant, Tanith Lee, and Ramsey Campbell.

Author : David Stuart Davies
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781840225464
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children of the Night written by David Stuart Davies and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 2007 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vampires, those dark children of the night, who rise from their coffins to suck the blood of the living, continue to hold a strange fascination and dread. This book presents vampire stories, some familiar, some less so.

Author : Liisa Ladouceur
Publisher : ECW Press
ISBN 13 : 1770904301
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How to Kill a Vampire written by Liisa Ladouceur and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 9780820474205
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blood Obsession written by Jörg Waltje and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2005 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Felicitas Schott
Publisher : Anchor Academic Publishing (aap_verlag)
ISBN 13 : 395489310X
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Undead Among Us - The Figure of the Vampire as the "Unknown Other" and Its Representation in "True Blood" written by Felicitas Schott and published by Anchor Academic Publishing (aap_verlag). This book was released on 2014-12 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drakul. Nosferatu. Upyr. Vampyre. There have been many names for what we know today as the vampire. For over a century, literature, television, cinema and many other areas in our daily lives cannot be imagined without the appearance of this fictional character. Almost everyone is familiar with the image of the walking undead that creeps out of its coffin at night and sucks the blood out of humans. The undead has always been appealing to its audience. It is the ‘otherness’ of such monsters, their frightful darkness and exoticism that makes them so interesting. This book deals with the figure of the vampire regarded as the ‘unknown other’ and how it is fictionally represented in the American TV series True Blood (2008 - ). Considering both psychoanalytical concepts as well identity theory, the author depicts the literary and cinematographic development of the fictional figure of the vampire since the late nineteenth century, and analyzes different representations of the vampire and its “otherness” as well as their appeal to the audience in the True Blood.