The Vampire Hunters Casebook

Author : Peter Haining
Publisher : Sphere
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1996-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0751514608

Get Book

Vampire Hunter's Casebook by Peter Haining Pdf

Author : Peter Haining
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Horror tales, English
ISBN : 0760704708

Get Book

The Vampire Hunters' Casebook by Peter Haining Pdf

"Armed with a crucifix, a wooden stake, a bottle of holy water, and a string of garlic, the vampire hunter ventures into the world of the undead to end the existence of those who have already died. This collection of 14 stories shifts the traditional focus of the genre from creatures of the night to the figures who stalk them. Introduced by the archetypal vampire hunter, Dracula's Professor Van Helsing, here are tales from such acclaimed authors as Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Anne Rice, Robert Bloch, and Peter Tremayne - whose eerie tale transplants the character of Van Helsing to modern-day Ireland."--Goodreads

Author : Alan Dundes
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1998-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780299159238

Get Book

The Vampire by Alan Dundes Pdf

Vampires are the most fearsome and fascinating of all creatures of folklore. For the first time, detailed accounts of the vampire and how its tradition developed in different cultures are gathered in one volume by eminent folklorist Alan Dundes. Eleven leading scholars from the fields of Slavic studies, history, anthropology, and psychiatry unearth the true nature of the vampire from its birth in graveyard lore to the modern-day psychiatric patient with a penchant for drinking blood. The Vampire: A Casebook takes this legend out of the realm of literature and film and back to its dark beginnings in folk traditions. The essays examine the history of the word “vampire;” Romanian vampires; Greek vampires; Serbian vampires; the physical attributes of vampires; the killing of vampires; and the possible psychoanalytic underpinnings of vampires. Much more than simply a scary creature of the human imagination, the vampire has been and continues to haunt the lives of all those who encounter it—in reality or in fiction.

Author : J Gordon Melton
Publisher : Visible Ink Press
Page : 944 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781578593507

Get Book

The Vampire Book by J Gordon Melton Pdf

The Ultimate Collection of Vampire Facts and Fiction From Vlad the Impaler to Barnabas Collins to Edward Cullen to Dracula and Bill Compton, renowned religion expert and fearless vampire authority J. Gordon Melton, PhD takes the reader on a vast, alphabetic tour of the psychosexual, macabre world of the blood-sucking undead. Digging deep into the lore, myths, pop culture, and reported realities of vampires and vampire legends from across the globe, The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead exposes everything about the blood thirsty predator. Death and immortality, sexual prowess and surrender, intimacy and alienation, rebellion and temptation. The allure of the vampire is eternal, and The Vampire Book explores it all. The historical, literary, mythological, biographical, and popular aspects of one of the world's most mesmerizing paranormal subject. This vast reference is an alphabetical tour of the psychosexual, macabre world of the soul-sucking undead. In the first fully revised and updated edition in a decade, Dr. J. Gordon Melton (president of the American chapter of the Transylvania Society of Dracula) bites even deeper into vampire lore, myths, reported realities, and legends that come from all around the world. From Transylvania to plague-infested Europe to Nostradamus and from modern literature to movies and TV series, this exhaustive guide furnishes more than 500 essays to quench your thirst for facts, biographies, definitions, and more.

Author : A.B. Emrys
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786485031

Get Book

Wilkie Collins, Vera Caspary and the Evolution of the Casebook Novel by A.B. Emrys Pdf

Wilkie Collins was one of the most popular novelists during England's Victorian era. While Collins scholarship has often focused on social issues, this critical study explores his formal ingenuity, particularly the novel of testimony constructed from epistolary fiction, trial reports and prose monologue. His innovations in form were later mirrored by Vera Caspary, who adapted The Woman in White three times into contemporary fiction. This text explores how the formal dialogue between Collins and Caspary has linked sensation fiction with noir thrillers and film noir.

Author : Lee Duke
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781480901698

Get Book

The Unsired by Lee Duke Pdf

Throw away your crucifix, for it will not protect you, not in this chillingly original take on the vampire legend. Its a tale of bloody revenge that will expose the modern-day workings of the Vampire Clans and their constant war with those who would hunt them to extinction. Its a story that explains away the myths handed down through centuries of ignorance that keeps us from believing the horrifying truth about the real vampires living among us today. It is the winter of 1362 in what was then a small Lithuanian farming village on the edge of the Carpathian Mountains. A man and a child lay dead, their throats savagely ripped open and their bodies drained of blood. The mans pregnant wife, on hearing the news, goes into premature labor, giving birth to an underdeveloped baby boy. The infant is not expected to live, and the mother remains weak and sickly. The attending midwives leave the two of them alone to share what precious moments they have left together. The creature responsible for the attacks is an injured vampire being chased through the nearby forest by a band of determined Hunters. In his need for blood to repair both the injuries and replenish his strength, the vampire doubles back, losing the Hunters in the process. Reentering the village, hidden from sight by the raging storm and the dark of night, the vampire breaks into one of the small homes to feed upon the defenseless mother as she clutches her newborn baby protectively to her breast. In the course of his savage feeding, the vampire unknowingly allows some of his own blood and that of the mother to spill into the infants mouth. The blood feeds and nurtures the dying infant, turning him into something very, very different. This horrific act will set in motion a series of events that will leave a trail of death and destruction across seven centuries and three continents, before it finally reaches the new lands of America. One man, not quite human or of the undead, will stand between the two warring factions of Hunters and Vampires, a saviour to some and a deadly enemy to others, and this is his story. Like “Blade” meets “Bond,” directed by Tarantino.

Author : Otto Penzler
Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
Page : 1058 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307473899

Get Book

The Vampire Archives by Otto Penzler Pdf

The Vampire Archives is the biggest, hungriest, undeadliest collection of vampire stories, as well as the most comprehensive bibliography of vampire fiction ever assembled. Dark, stormy, and delicious, once it sinks its teeth into you there’s no escape. Vampires! Whether imagined by Bram Stoker or Anne Rice, they are part of the human lexicon and as old as blood itself. They are your neighbors, your friends, and they are always lurking. Now Otto Penzler—editor of the bestselling Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps—has compiled the darkest, the scariest, and by far the most evil collection of vampire stories ever. With over eighty stories, including the works of Stephen King and D. H. Lawrence, alongside Lord Byron and Tanith Lee, not to mention Edgar Allan Poe and Harlan Ellison, The Vampire Archives will drive a stake through the heart of any other collection out there. Other contributors include: Arthur Conan Doyle • Ray Bradbury • Ambrose Bierce • H. P. Lovecraft • Harlan Ellison • Roger Zelazny • Robert Bloch • Clive Barker

Author : Simon Bacon
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1746 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031362538

Get Book

The Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire by Simon Bacon Pdf

Author : William Patrick Day
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813153940

Get Book

Vampire Legends in Contemporary American Culture by William Patrick Day Pdf

While vampire stories have been part of popular culture since the beginning of the nineteenth century, it has been in recent decades that they have become a central part of American culture. Vampire Legends in Contemporary American Culture looks at how vampire stories—from Bram Stoker's Dracula to Blacula, from Bela Lugosi's films to Love at First Bite—have become part of our ongoing debate about what it means to be human. William Patrick Day looks at how writers and filmmakers as diverse as Anne Rice and Andy Warhol present the vampire as an archetype of human identity, as well as how many post-modern vampire stories reflect our fear and attraction to stories of addiction and violence. He argues that contemporary stories use the character of Dracula to explore modern values, and that stories of vampire slayers, such as the popular television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, integrate current feminist ideas and the image of the Vietnam veteran into a new heroic version of the vampire story.

Author : Aspasia Stephanou
Publisher : Springer
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137349231

Get Book

Reading Vampire Gothic Through Blood by Aspasia Stephanou Pdf

Reading Vampire Gothic Through Blood examines the manifestations of blood and vampires in various texts and contexts. It seeks to connect, through blood, fictional to real-life vampires to trace similarities, differences and discontinuities. These movements will be seen to parallel changing notions about embodiment and identity in culture.

Author : Martin Howard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Vampires
ISBN : 0760793999

Get Book

The Vampire Hunter's Handbook by Martin Howard Pdf

"Professor Abraham Van Helsing is a protagonist from Bram Stoker's 1897 novel, Dracula ... According to The Vampire Hunter's Handbook, Abraham was not the first Van Helsing to encounter vampires. [This book was] supposedly written by Raphael Van Helsing in the 18th century. It has also been prequeled by The Demon Hunter's Handbook by Abelard Van Helsing (16th century) and The Dragon Hunter's Handbook by Adelia Vin Helsin (14th century)"--Wikipedia.

Author : Seabury Quinn
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 719 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781597809863

Get Book

Black Moon by Seabury Quinn Pdf

The concluding volume in a series collecting the stories of Jules de Grandin, the supernatural detective made famous in the classic pulp magazine Weird Tales. Today the names of H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, August Derleth, and Clark Ashton Smith, all regular contributors to the pulp magazine Weird Tales during the first half of the twentieth century, are recognizable even to casual readers of the bizarre and fantastic. And yet despite being more popular than them all during the golden era of genre pulp fiction, there is another author whose name and work have fallen into obscurity: Seabury Quinn. Quinn’s short stories were featured in well over half of Weird Tales’s original publication run. His most famous character, the French supernatural detective Dr. Jules de Grandin, investigated cases involving monsters, devil worshippers, serial killers, and spirits from beyond the grave, often set in the small town of Harrisonville, New Jersey. In de Grandin there are familiar shades of both Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot, and alongside his assistant, Dr. Samuel Trowbridge, de Grandin’s knack for solving mysteries—and his outbursts of peculiar French-isms (Grand Dieu!)—captivated readers for nearly three decades. Available for the first time in trade editions, The Complete Tales of Jules de Grandin collects all ninety-three published works featuring the supernatural detective. Presented in chronological order over five volumes, this is the definitive collection of an iconic pulp hero. The fifth volume, Black Moon, includes all the stories from “Suicide Chapel” (1938) to “The Ring of Bastet” (1951), as well as an introduction by George Vanderburgh and Robert Weinberg and a foreword by Stephen Jones.

Author : William Hill
Publisher : Ellen Hill
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2006-11
Category : Texas
ISBN : 9781890611415

Get Book

The Vampire Hunters Stalked by William Hill Pdf

Lucius Shade, the vampire, is destroyed. In the aftermath, Gunstock, Texas, remains in mourning and turmoil. The lynch-leading Gunn boys await trial in jail. Garrett Brashear resides in the mental ward, but strange deaths and disappearances still plague the small town.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1862058040

Get Book

The Vampire Hunter's Handbook by Anonim Pdf

Author : Matthew Beresford
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781861897428

Get Book

From Demons to Dracula by Matthew Beresford Pdf

In blood-soaked lore handed down the centuries, the vampire is a monster of endless fascination: from Bram Stoker’s Dracula to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, this seductive lover of blood haunts popular culture and inhabits our darkest imaginings. The cultural history of the vampire is a rich and varied tale that is now ably documented in From Demons to Dracula, a compelling study of the vampire myth that reveals why this creature of the undead fascinates us so. Beresford’s chronicle roams from the mountains of Eastern Europe to the foggy streets of Victorian England to Hollywood, as he investigates the portrayal of the vampire in history, literature, and art. Opening with the original Dracula, Vlad the Impaler, and his status as a national hero in Romania, he endeavors to winnow out truths from the complex legend and folklore. From Demons to Dracula tracks the evolution of the vampire as an icon and supernatural creature, drawing on classical Greek and Roman myths, witch trials and medieval plagues, Gothic literature, and even contemporary works such as Anne Rice’s Interview with a Vampire and Elizabeth Kostova’s The Historian. Beresford also looks at the widespread impact of screen vampires from television shows, classic movies starring Bela Lugosi and Christopher Lee, and more recent films such as Underworld and Blade. Whether as a demon of the underworld or a light-fearing hunter of humans, the vampire has endured through the centuries, the book reveals, as powerfully symbolic figure for human concerns with life, death, and the afterlife. A wide-ranging and engrossing chronicle, From Demons to Dracula casts this blood-thirsty nightstalker as a remarkably complex and telling totem of our nightmares, real and imagined.