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Author : Rosemary Ellen Guiley
Publisher : Visionary Living, Inc.
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-15
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781942157908
Author : Adler, Margot
Publisher : Weiser Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781578635603
“Vampires. Why do we care? In these pages you will find what is very simply, the most literate, imaginative, and just plain fascinating answer to that question ever written.” ?Whitley Strieber In a culture that does not do death particularly well, we are obsessed with mortality. Margot Adler writes, “Vampires let us play with death and the issue of mortality. They let us ponder what it would mean to be truly long lived. Would the long view allow us to see the world differently, imagine social structures differently? Would it increase or decrease our reverence for the planet? Vampires allow us to ask questions we usually bury.” As Adler, a longtime NPR correspondent and question asker, sat vigil at her dying husband’s bedside, she found herself newly drawn to vampire novels and their explorations of mortality. Over the next four years—by now she has read more than 270 vampire novels, from teen to adult, from gothic to modern, from detective to comic—she began to see just how each era creates the vampires it needs. Dracula, an Eastern European monster, was the perfect vehicle for 19th-century England’s fear of outsiders and of disease seeping in through its large ports. In 1960s America, Dark Shadows gave us the morally conflicted vampire struggling against his own predatory nature, who still enthralls us today. Think Spike and Angel, Stefan and Damon, Bill and Eric, the Cullens. Vampires Are Us explores the issues of power, politics, morality, identity, and even the fate of the planet that show up in vampire novels today. Perhaps, Adler suggests, our blood is oil, perhaps our prey is the planet. Perhaps vampires are us.
Author : Norine Dresser
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0679730419
Author : Bob Curran
Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-22
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781601635884
Vampires are much more complex creatures than Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Twilight, True Blood, or scores of other movies and television shows would have you believe. Even in America. American vampire lore has its roots in the beliefs and fears of the diverse peoples and nationalities that make up our country, and reflects the rich tapestry of their varied perspectives. The vampires that lurk in the American darkness come in a variety of shapes and sizes and can produce some surprising results. Vampires in North Carolina are vastly different from those in South Carolina, and even more different from those in New York State. Moreover, not all of them are human in form, and they can’t necessarily be warded off by the sight of a crucifix or a bulb of garlic. Dr. Bob Curran visits the Louisiana bayous, the back streets of New York City, the hills of Tennessee, the Sierras of California, the deserts of Arizona, and many more locations in a bid to track down the vampire creatures that lurk there. Join him if you dare! This is not Hollywood’s version of the vampire—these entities are real!
Author : Katherine Ramsland
Publisher : HarperTorch
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1999-10-06
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 0061059455
The true story of Susan Walsh, a young reporter who mysteriously disappeared while writing about downtown Manhattan's "vampire" underground furnishes an exploration into a real-life vampire world that has its own rituals, rules, boundaries, and penalties. Reprint. AB. BAKER & TAYLOR Bks
Author : Lawrence Schimel,Martin Harry Greenberg
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1997-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781620453216
Perhaps more than any region, the American South is haunted by the mythology of the vampire, returned from the dead to drain life from the living.
Author : Jennifer Armintrout
Publisher : MIRA
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Occult fiction
ISBN : 1921793392
He's the good kind of vampire. Sort of. Buried in the Heartland is a town that no one enters or leaves. Graf McDonald was the first visitor in more than five years...and he was only looking for a party! Unfortunately, Penance, Ohio, is not that place. After having been isolated for so long, its inhabitants don't take kindly to strangers. Jessa is the only one who trusts Graf, and she's desperate for the kind of protection that only a vampire like him can provide. Supplies are low, the locals are stirring for a sacrifice and there's a monster lurking in the woods. New men are hard to come by in the lonesome town, and this handsome stranger might be Jessa's only help for salvation. Even if she has to die first
Author : Seth Grahame-Smith
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781455502103
Vampire Henry Sturges returns in the highly anticipated sequel to Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter-a sweeping, alternate history of twentieth-century America by New York Times bestselling author Seth Grahame-Smith. THE LAST AMERICAN VAMPIRE In Reconstruction-era America, vampire Henry Sturges is searching for renewed purpose in the wake of his friend Abraham Lincoln's shocking death. Henry's will be an expansive journey that first sends him to England for an unexpected encounter with Jack the Ripper, then to New York City for the birth of a new American century, the dawn of the electric era of Tesla and Edison, and the blazing disaster of the 1937 Hindenburg crash. Along the way, Henry goes on the road in a Kerouac-influenced trip as Seth Grahame-Smith ingeniously weaves vampire history through Russia's October Revolution, the First and Second World Wars, and the JFK assassination. Expansive in scope and serious in execution, THE LAST AMERICAN VAMPIRE is sure to appeal to the passionate readers who made Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter a runaway success.
Author : Erica Stevens
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1477679995
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Author : Sam Navarre
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781448855285
Presents a history of vampire lore in America and focuses on its popular culture impact in print and film.
Author : Jerry Rafiki Jenkins
Publisher : New Suns: Race, Gender, and Se
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0814214010
"This book examines the link between blackness and immortality in the fledgling genre of African American vampire fiction"--
Author : Susannah R Drissi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1678107395
An unforgettable coming-of-age story, Until We're Fishblends the romance, violence, mood, and ethos of the Cuban Revolution with a young man's hopeless and heroic first love. With the truth of experience and the lyricism of poetry, Rodríguez Drissi constructs an exquisite, gossamer tale of revolution and hearts set adrift. A Don Quixote for our times, Until We're Fish is an intimate exploration into the souls of people willing to sacrifice everything to be free.
Author : Stacey Abbott
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009-03-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780292784499
In 1896, French magician and filmmaker George Méliès brought forth the first celluloid vampire in his film Le manoir du diable. The vampire continues to be one of film's most popular gothic monsters and in fact, today more people become acquainted with the vampire through film than through literature, such as Bram Stoker's classic Dracula. How has this long legacy of celluloid vampires affected our understanding of vampire mythology? And how has the vampire morphed from its folkloric and literary origins? In this entertaining and absorbing work, Stacey Abbott challenges the conventional interpretation of vampire mythology and argues that the medium of film has completely reinvented the vampire archetype. Rather than representing the primitive and folkloric, the vampire has come to embody the very experience of modernity. No longer in a cape and coffin, today's vampire resides in major cities, listens to punk music, embraces technology, and adapts to any situation. Sometimes she's even female. With case studies of vampire classics such as Nosferatu, Martin, Blade, and Habit, the author traces the evolution of the American vampire film, arguing that vampires are more than just blood-drinking monsters; they reflect the cultural and social climate of the societies that produce them, especially during times of intense change and modernization. Abbott also explores how independent filmmaking techniques, special effects makeup, and the stunning and ultramodern computer-generated effects of recent films have affected the representation of the vampire in film.
Author : D. B. Reynolds
Publisher : ImaJinn Books
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781610260763
Buffalo, New York--Thundering waterfalls, great sports teams . . . and a treacherous vampire lord who is slowly losing his mind. New York City vampire Rajmund Gregor is the undisputed master of The Big Apple. He bows to no one but his Sire, the Vampire Lord Krystof, who has ruled the Northeast for hundreds of years. But when Krystof summons Rajmund to his headquarters in Buffalo, Raj finds his master slowly descending into madness and his territory crumbling around him. Raj is the only one of Krystof's children strong enough to seize power, but he'll have to save his master before he can destroy him. Several women have gone missing, and the local police are convinced a vampire is behind it. Is Krystof so lost to reality that he's capturing and murdering human women? Is a rogue vampire moving into Krystof's territory for the kill? Or is it something far more insidious, something that could threaten the existence of vampires everywhere? Sarah Stratton is living a lie. Her past holds a secret she shares with no one--not even her good friend Cynthia Leighton, the West Coast vampire lord's mate. It's a secret that could destroy her carefully constructed life as a professor at a Buffalo university. It's also a secret that could save the lives of the missing women. To save them, however, she must enter Buffalo's vampire community and put herself into the care of Rajmund Gregor. But can she trust Raj, the dangerously seductive vampire who wants to lay claim to far more than her secrets?
Author : Dado Dali
Publisher : Booktango
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-15
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781468917123
Everything you can find in this text are pure facts from real life but also a word of science. In further pages of our work we will display not only science facts vampires and vampirism but also about real cases from real life that are confirmed by the public and people talk about it.
