Author: Rosemary Ellen Guiley
Publisher: Visionary Living, Inc.
ISBN: 1942157908
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Author: Adler, Margot
Publisher: Weiser Books
ISBN: 1578635608
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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“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: Katherine Ramsland
Publisher: HarperTorch
ISBN: 9780061059452
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 560

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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: Norine Dresser
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9780679730415
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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Author: Bob Curran
Publisher: Red Wheel/Weiser
ISBN: 1601635885
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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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: Nina Auerbach
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022605618X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 265

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This “vigorous, witty look at the undead as cultural icons in 19th- and 20th-century England and America” examines the many meanings of the vampire myth (Kirkus Reviews). From Byron’s Lord Ruthven to Anne Rice’s Lestat to the black bisexual heroine of Jewelle Gomez’s The Gilda Stories, vampires have taken many forms, capturing and recapturing our imaginations for centuries. In Our Vampires, Ourselves, Nina Auerbach explores the rich history of this literary and cultural phenomenon to illuminate how every age embraces the vampire it needs—and gets the vampire it deserves. Working with a wide range of texts, as well as movies and television, Auerbach follows the evolution of the vampire from 19th century England to 20th century America. Using the mercurial figure as a lens for viewing the last two hundred years of Anglo-American cultural history, “this seductive work offers profound insights into many of the urgent concerns of our time” (Wendy Doniger, The Nation).

Author: Milly Williamson
Publisher: Wallflower Press
ISBN: 9781904764403
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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This title explores the enduring myth of Dracula and vampires and just why it has remained so popular for so long.

Author: Natalie Wilson
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786485612
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 245

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Stephenie Meyer's Twilight saga has maintained a tight grip on the contemporary cultural imagination. This timely and critical work examines how the Twilight series offers addictively appealing messages about love, romance, sex, beauty and body image, and how these charged themes interact with cultural issues regarding race, class, gender and sexuality. Through a careful analysis of the texts, the fandom and the current socio-historical climate, this work argues that the success of the Twilight series stems chiefly from Meyer's negotiation of cultural mores.

Author: Daniel Stabler
Publisher: Abbott Press
ISBN: 145821043X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 374

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In this world, there are beings who are more than humansthose who live in the shadows and thrive on blood and fear. In the darkness, a battle rages between the vampires and their sworn enemies, the Preylutes, the abominations created when vampires breed with werewolves. The vampires consider the half-breeds to be a threat to their way of life and have vowed to destroy them all. The Preylutes in turn fight to defend themselvesbut a Preylute named John, seeking neither to kill nor go to war, leaves home in search of others like himself. Meanwhile, in the world of humans, one man bears a horrible destiny, unknown even to himself. Lucas, a businessman, finds his life ripped apart when he first transitions. Desperate for understanding, he fights a war of his ownwith his own body and his fate. He is surrounded by people he loves, and yet the drive to slaughter is so strong that it may overwhelm him. He meets a young woman who is targeted by the vampires and vows to protect her. When Lucas encounters John, the two work together to put an end to the ongoing violence and horror. They take a stand to fight against both the vampires and the werewolves, to stop the bloodshed once and for all. But are the hopes of two enough to change the future for all?

Author: Chloe Neill
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9780451226259
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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The first Chicagoland Vampires novel from New York Times bestselling author Chloe Neill. Sure, the life of a graduate student wasn't exactly glamorous, but it was Merit's. She was doing fine until a rogue vampire attacked her. But he only got a sip before he was scared away by another bloodsucker and this one decided the best way to save her life was to make her the walking undead. Turns out her savior was the master vampire of Cadogan House. Now she’s traded sweating over her thesis for learning to fit in at a Hyde Park mansion full of vamps loyal to Ethan Lord o the Manor Sullivan. Of course, as a tall, green-eyed, four-hundred-year-old vampire, he has centuries’ worth of charm, but unfortunately he expects her gratitude—and servitude. But an inconvenient sunlight allergy and Ethan’s attitude are the least of Merit's concerns. Someone's still out to get her. Her initiation into Chicago's nightlife may be the first skirmish in a war...and there will be blood.