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Author : Dudley Wright
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547085409
This book is an attempt to collate the myths and stories of vampires across Europe, spanning from Babylonia to Bulgaria. It also tries to examine whether such a creature could exist in real life based on scientific considerations.
Author : Montague Summers
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780486121062
DIVStudy examines vampire lore in fantastic detail, addressing such issues as how vampires came into existence, vampirish behavior, vampire-like ancient myths, and vampires in modern literature. /div
Author : Lois Tilton
Publisher : Pinnacle Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1990-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1558174508
For vampire Blaine Kettridge, the cold, dark nuclear winter is the beginning of a new life--he can hunt and feed whenever he pleases, because it is always night
Author : Thomas M. Bohn
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789202939
“An illuminating contribution to scholarship on the vampire figure.”—Slavic Review Even before Bram Stoker immortalized Transylvania as the homeland of his fictional Count Dracula, the figure of the vampire was inextricably tied to Eastern Europe in the popular imagination. Drawing on a wealth of previously neglected sources, this book offers a fascinating account of how vampires—whose various incarnations originally emerged from folk traditions from all over the world—became so strongly identified with Eastern Europe. It demonstrates that the modern conception of the vampire was born in the crucible of the Enlightenment, embodying a mysterious, Eastern otherness that stood opposed to Western rationality. From the Prologue: From Original Sin to Eternal Life For a broad contemporary public, the vampire has become a star, a media sensation from Hollywood. Bestselling authors such as Bram Stoker, Anne Rice and Stephenie Meyer continue to fire the imaginations of young and old alike, and bloodsuckers have achieved immortality through films like Dracula, Interview with a Vampireand Twilight. It is no wonder that, in the teenage bedrooms of our globalized world, vampires even steal the show from Harry Potter. They have long since been assigned individual personalities and treated with sympathy. They may possess superhuman powers, but they are also burdened by their immortality and have to learn to come to terms with their craving for blood. Whereas the Southeast European vampire, discovered in the 1730s, underwent an Americanization and domestication in the media landscape of the twentieth century, the creole zombies that first became known through the cheap novels and horror films of the 1920s still continue to serve as brainless horror figures. Do bloodsuckers really exist and should we really be afraid of the dead? These are the questions that I seek to tackle, following the wishes of my daughter, who was ten when I started this project.
Author : Joseph P. Laycock
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9798216161455
This book, about real vampires and the communities they have formed, explores the modern world of vampirism in all its amazing variety. Long before Dracula, people were fascinated by vampires. The interest has continued in more recent times with Anne Rice's Lestat novels, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the HBO series True Blood, and the immensely popular Twilight. But vampires are not just the stuff of folklore and fiction. Based upon extensive interviews with members of the Atlanta Vampire Alliance and others within vampire communities throughout the United States, this fascinating book looks at the details of real vampire life and the many expressions of vampirism as it now exists. In Vampires Today: The Truth about Modern Vampirism, Joseph Laycock argues that today's vampires are best understood as an identity group, and that vampirism has caused a profound change in how individuals choose to define themselves. As vampires come "out of the coffin," as followers of a "religion" or "lifestyle" or as people biologically distinct from other humans, their confrontation with mainstream society will raise questions, as it does here, about how we define "normal" and what it means to be human.
Author : Anne Rice
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307575852
The spellbinding classic that started it all, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author—the inspiration for the hit television series “A magnificent, compulsively readable thriller . . . Rice begins where Bram Stoker and the Hollywood versions leave off and penetrates directly to the true fascination of the myth—the education of the vampire.”—Chicago Tribune Here are the confessions of a vampire. Hypnotic, shocking, and chillingly sensual, this is a novel of mesmerizing beauty and astonishing force—a story of danger and flight, of love and loss, of suspense and resolution, and of the extraordinary power of the senses. It is a novel only Anne Rice could write.
Author : Dudley Wright
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783756214587
The Greek Church at one time taught that the bodies of persons upon whom the ban of excommunication had been passed did not undergo decomposition after death until such sentence had been revoked by the pronouncement of absolution over the remains, and that, while the bodies remained in this uncorrupted condition, the spirits of the individuals wandered up and down the earth seeking sustenance from the blood of the living. The non-corruption of a body, however, was also held to be one of the proofs of sanctity; but, in this case, the body preserved its natural colour and gave an agreeable odour, whereas the bodies of the excommunicated generally turned black, swelled out like a drum, and emitted an offensive smell. Very frequently, however, when the graves of suspected vampires were opened, the faces were found to be of ruddy complexion and the veins distended with blood, which, when opened with a lancet, yielded a supply of blood as plentiful, fresh, and free as that found in the veins of young and healthy living human beings. For many centuries in the history of Greek Christianity there was scarcely a village that had not its own local vampire stories which were related by the inhabitants and vouched for by them as having either occurred within their own knowledge or been related to them by their parents or relatives as having come within their personal observation or been verified by them.
Author : Cait Coker,Donald E. Palumbo,C.W. Sullivan III
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476637334
The media vampire has roots throughout the world, far beyond the shores of the usual Dracula-inspired Anglo-American archetypes. Depending on text and context, the vampire is a figure of anxiety and comfort, humor and fear, desire and revulsion. These dichotomies gesture the enduring prevalence of the vampire in mass culture; it can no longer articulate a single feeling or response, bound by time and geography, but is many things to many people. With a global perspective, this collection of essays offers something new and different: a much needed counter-narrative of the vampire's evolution in popular culture. Divided by geography, this text emphasizes the vampiric as a globetrotting citizen du monde rather than an isolated monster.
Author : Nick Groom
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300240818
An authoritative new history of the vampire, two hundred years after it first appeared on the literary scene Published to mark the bicentenary of John Polidori’s publication of The Vampyre, Nick Groom’s detailed new account illuminates the complex history of the iconic creature. The vampire first came to public prominence in the early eighteenth century, when Enlightenment science collided with Eastern European folklore and apparently verified outbreaks of vampirism, capturing the attention of medical researchers, political commentators, social theorists, theologians, and philosophers. Groom accordingly traces the vampire from its role as a monster embodying humankind’s fears, to that of an unlikely hero for the marginalized and excluded in the twenty-first century. Drawing on literary and artistic representations, as well as medical, forensic, empirical, and sociopolitical perspectives, this rich and eerie history presents the vampire as a strikingly complex being that has been used to express the traumas and contradictions of the human condition.
Author : Liisa Ladouceur
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781770411470
Citing examples from folklore, as well as horror films, TV shows, and works of fiction, this book details all known ways to prevent vampirism, including how to protect oneself against attacks and how to destroy vampires. While offering explanations on the origins and uses of most commonly known tactics in fending off vampirism, the book also delves much deeper by collecting historical accounts of unusual burial rites and shocking superstitions from European history, from the “real” Serbian vampire Arnold Paole to the unique Bulgarian Djadadjii, a professional vampire “bottler.” It traces the evolution of how to kill the fictional vampire—from Bram Stoker’s Dracula and the Hammer horror films beginning in the 1950s to Anne Rice’s Lestat and the dreamy vamps of Twilight, True Blood, and The Vampire Diaries—and also celebrates the most important slayers, including Van Helsing, Buffy, and Blade. In exploring how and why these monsters have been created and the increasingly complex ways in which they are destroyed, 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 : Dudley Wright
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1792823622
"Vampires and Vampirism" is one of the more interesting works on the subject penned less than two decades after the release of Bram Stoker's "Dracula." More than a treatment of Romanian and similar lore, it speaks of some Asian demons and spirits as well as lore from Russia and other locales.Covering some then-contemporary poetry and literature on the subject as well as treating on ancient cultures and their own inclusion of blood drinking or disembodied ghouls, Wright's work is of great value to the cryptozoologist, occultist, and history buff alike.
Author : Toma Longinović
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822350392
Analyzes how the rhetoric of Yugoslav intellectuals and politicians and the U.S.-led Western media and political leadership framed the serbs as metaphorical vampires in the last decades of the twentieth century.
Author : Montague Summers
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780486121048
Riveting study of vampirism in Europe — from vampires in Greek and Roman lore to their presence in Saxon England, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Russia, Romania, Bulgaria, and even modern Greece.
Author : D. Wright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1856460037
Author : Milly Williamson
Publisher : Wallflower Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1904764401
This title explores the enduring myth of Dracula and vampires and just why it has remained so popular for so long.