Blood Thirst: 100 Years of Vampire Fiction

by Leonard Wolf (Editor)

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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 show more 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. show less

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Leonard Wolf
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Leonard Wolf was born in Vulcan, Romania (Transylvania). He is the editor of The Essential Frankenstein, The Essential Dracula, and The Essential Jekyll and Hyde, the contributing editor to the Newmarket Pictorial Moviebook on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and technical advisor on the films Bram Stoker's Dracula and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. show more Wolf's prize-winning poetry and fiction have appeared in The Atlantic, Harper's and The New Yorker. His work in the horror genre has been honored twice with the Anne Radcliffe Award for Literature. He lives in New York City. show less

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Allen, Woody (Contributor)
Beaumont, Charles (Contributor)
Benson, EF (Contributor)
Blackwood, Algernon (Contributor)
Brown, Fredric (Contributor)
Bryant, Edward (Contributor)
Carter, Leslie Roy (Contributor)
Casper, Susan (Contributor)
Charnas, Suzy McKee (Contributor)
Cheever, John (Contributor)
Crawford, F. Marion (Contributor)
Derleth, August (Contributor)
Ewers, Hanns Heinz (Contributor)
Gilman, Laura Anne (Contributor)
Hearn, Lafcadio (Contributor)
James, MR (Contributor)
King, Stephen (Contributor)
Lee, Tanith (Contributor)
Leiber, Fritz (Contributor)
Lippincott, Gary A. (Cover artist)
Matheson, Richard (Contributor)
Moore, CL (Contributor)
Oates, Joyce Carol (Contributor)
Rice, Anne (Contributor)
Strieber, Whitley (Contributor)
Wilkins-Freeman, Mary E. (Contributor)
Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn (Contributor)
Zelazny, Roger (Contributor)

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Canonical DDC/MDS
823.0873808375
Canonical LCC
PR1309.V36B58

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Fiction and Literature, Horror, Fantasy
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823.0873808375 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English fiction By type Genre fiction Adventure fiction Horror and ghost fiction Horror fiction Anthologies Collections of literary texts in more than one form
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PR1309 .V36 .B58 — Language and Literature English English Literature Collections of English literature
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