Author: Elle Klass
Publisher: Books by Elle
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Introverted bookworm Alison was forced to move to St. Augustine, Florida when her parents divorced. Leaving her comfortable life, she struggles to find a new one. In the blistering Florida heat, she stays indoors reading and spying on Rodham - the hot guy across the hall. Everything changes when loud, mysterious neighbors move in next door to Alison. Mutual interest and a glowing amulet bring Rodham and Alison together. In a blink she’s fighting supernatural creatures, doing whatever it takes to stay alive, and becoming part of something much bigger than she could have dreamed.
The Vampires Next Door
Author: Elle Klass
Publisher: Books by Elle
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Introverted bookworm Alison was forced to move to St. Augustine, Florida when her parents divorced. Leaving her comfortable life, she struggles to find a new one. In the blistering Florida heat, she stays indoors reading and spying on Rodham - the hot guy across the hall. Everything changes when loud, mysterious neighbors move in next door to Alison. Mutual interest and a glowing amulet bring Rodham and Alison together. In a blink she’s fighting supernatural creatures, doing whatever it takes to stay alive, and becoming part of something much bigger than she could have dreamed.
Publisher: Books by Elle
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Introverted bookworm Alison was forced to move to St. Augustine, Florida when her parents divorced. Leaving her comfortable life, she struggles to find a new one. In the blistering Florida heat, she stays indoors reading and spying on Rodham - the hot guy across the hall. Everything changes when loud, mysterious neighbors move in next door to Alison. Mutual interest and a glowing amulet bring Rodham and Alison together. In a blink she’s fighting supernatural creatures, doing whatever it takes to stay alive, and becoming part of something much bigger than she could have dreamed.
The Vampire Next Door
Author: Cherie Marks
Publisher: Timbercreek Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
For Mia Alexander, the world is getting hotter—literally. Not only is she slathering on gobs of sunscreen, but she’s developed a ravenous desire for rare meat. As if not strange enough, a freaking hottie-like-no-other just moved in next door and can’t seem to keep his gaze off of her. Campbell Reid has wandered this earth as a vampire for a long time, but since the tragedy of his family’s death, he’s perfected an unbreakable control—until he encountered his latest target. His mission from The Supernatural Council is to protect her from other vampires as she transitions and from a mysterious, emerging threat. But can he protect her from himself? Things heat up as the danger closes in, and Campbell fights by her side as The Vampire Next Door. #vampireromance #paranormalromance #pnr #shifterromance
Publisher: Timbercreek Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
For Mia Alexander, the world is getting hotter—literally. Not only is she slathering on gobs of sunscreen, but she’s developed a ravenous desire for rare meat. As if not strange enough, a freaking hottie-like-no-other just moved in next door and can’t seem to keep his gaze off of her. Campbell Reid has wandered this earth as a vampire for a long time, but since the tragedy of his family’s death, he’s perfected an unbreakable control—until he encountered his latest target. His mission from The Supernatural Council is to protect her from other vampires as she transitions and from a mysterious, emerging threat. But can he protect her from himself? Things heat up as the danger closes in, and Campbell fights by her side as The Vampire Next Door. #vampireromance #paranormalromance #pnr #shifterromance
The Vampire Next Door
Author: Marilyn Baron
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press Inc
ISBN: 1509214917
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
Aurora Dawn Hale, the ravishing daughter and granddaughter of psychics, wants to take a bite out of the boy next door, reformed vampire Lancelot “Lance” Lakeland, who repents his past and desperately desires to be good. Lance has given up immortality to be with the woman he craves. He must convince Aurora Dawn he is worthy of her trust. Will she love him for who he is and leave her fiancé at the altar? Or wake up from her spell in time to recognize the evil presence of the fiend who has terrorized her family for centuries?
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press Inc
ISBN: 1509214917
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
Aurora Dawn Hale, the ravishing daughter and granddaughter of psychics, wants to take a bite out of the boy next door, reformed vampire Lancelot “Lance” Lakeland, who repents his past and desperately desires to be good. Lance has given up immortality to be with the woman he craves. He must convince Aurora Dawn he is worthy of her trust. Will she love him for who he is and leave her fiancé at the altar? Or wake up from her spell in time to recognize the evil presence of the fiend who has terrorized her family for centuries?
Blood Read
Author: Joan Gordon
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812216288
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The vampire is one of the nineteenth century's most powerful surviving archetypes, owing largely to Bela Lugosi's portrayal of Dracula, the Bram Stoker creation. Yet the figure of the vampire has undergone many transformations in recent years, thanks to Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles and other works, and many young people now identify with vampires in complex ways. Blood Read explores these transformations and shows how they reflect and illuminate ongoing changes in postmodern culture. It focuses on the metaphorical roles played by vampires in contemporary fiction and film, revealing what they can tell us about sexuality and power, power and alienation, attitudes toward illness, and the definition of evil in a secular age. Scholars and writers from the United States, Canada, England, and Japan examine how today's vampire has evolved from that of the last century, consider the vampire as a metaphor for consumption within the context of social concerns, and discuss the vampire figure in terms of contemporary literary theory. In addition, three writers of vampire fiction—Suzy McKee Charnas (author of the now-classic Vampire Tapestry), Brian Stableford (writer of the lively and erudite novels Empire of Fear and Young Blood), and Jewelle Gomez (creator of the dazzling Gilda stories)—discuss their own uses of the vampire, focusing on race and gender politics, eroticism, and the nature of evil. The first book to examine a wide range of vampire narratives from the perspective of both writers and scholars, Blood Read offers a variety of styles that will keep readers thoroughly engaged, inviting them to participate in a dialogue between fiction and analysis that shows the vampire to be a cultural necessity of our age. For, contrary to legends in which Dracula has no reflection, we can see reflections of ourselves in the vampire as it stands before us cloaked not in black but in metaphor.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812216288
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
The vampire is one of the nineteenth century's most powerful surviving archetypes, owing largely to Bela Lugosi's portrayal of Dracula, the Bram Stoker creation. Yet the figure of the vampire has undergone many transformations in recent years, thanks to Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles and other works, and many young people now identify with vampires in complex ways. Blood Read explores these transformations and shows how they reflect and illuminate ongoing changes in postmodern culture. It focuses on the metaphorical roles played by vampires in contemporary fiction and film, revealing what they can tell us about sexuality and power, power and alienation, attitudes toward illness, and the definition of evil in a secular age. Scholars and writers from the United States, Canada, England, and Japan examine how today's vampire has evolved from that of the last century, consider the vampire as a metaphor for consumption within the context of social concerns, and discuss the vampire figure in terms of contemporary literary theory. In addition, three writers of vampire fiction—Suzy McKee Charnas (author of the now-classic Vampire Tapestry), Brian Stableford (writer of the lively and erudite novels Empire of Fear and Young Blood), and Jewelle Gomez (creator of the dazzling Gilda stories)—discuss their own uses of the vampire, focusing on race and gender politics, eroticism, and the nature of evil. The first book to examine a wide range of vampire narratives from the perspective of both writers and scholars, Blood Read offers a variety of styles that will keep readers thoroughly engaged, inviting them to participate in a dialogue between fiction and analysis that shows the vampire to be a cultural necessity of our age. For, contrary to legends in which Dracula has no reflection, we can see reflections of ourselves in the vampire as it stands before us cloaked not in black but in metaphor.
The Vampire Next Door
Author: Natalie Vivien
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781505214703
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Courtney Banks owns a failing book store, and her relationship with her girlfriend Mia is falling apart. Courtney doesn't even think she believes in love...that is, until she meets the vampire next door. Valeria "Lare" Maille is a gorgeous scientist working on cutting-edge genetics. She also just happens to be a vampire, and Courtney's new neighbor. Sparks fly from the very first moment Courtney and Lare meet, and their attraction is undeniable. But in a world where vampires have just "come out" of hiding, tensions between humans and vampires are running high. When Lare's co-workers begin to go missing, it looks like foul play may put Lare in danger, too. Will Courtney and Lare have a chance at love, or is the cost of falling for a vampire too high? THE VAMPIRE NEXT DOOR is a light-hearted paranormal romance that will take you on a journey you'll never forget. Written by wife-and-wife authors Natalie Vivien (known for her laugh-out-loud contemporary romances) and Bridget Essex (known for her vampires and werewolves in love), THE VAMPIRE NEXT DOOR is a marriage of humor, steamy romance and a love story that's out of this world."
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781505214703
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Courtney Banks owns a failing book store, and her relationship with her girlfriend Mia is falling apart. Courtney doesn't even think she believes in love...that is, until she meets the vampire next door. Valeria "Lare" Maille is a gorgeous scientist working on cutting-edge genetics. She also just happens to be a vampire, and Courtney's new neighbor. Sparks fly from the very first moment Courtney and Lare meet, and their attraction is undeniable. But in a world where vampires have just "come out" of hiding, tensions between humans and vampires are running high. When Lare's co-workers begin to go missing, it looks like foul play may put Lare in danger, too. Will Courtney and Lare have a chance at love, or is the cost of falling for a vampire too high? THE VAMPIRE NEXT DOOR is a light-hearted paranormal romance that will take you on a journey you'll never forget. Written by wife-and-wife authors Natalie Vivien (known for her laugh-out-loud contemporary romances) and Bridget Essex (known for her vampires and werewolves in love), THE VAMPIRE NEXT DOOR is a marriage of humor, steamy romance and a love story that's out of this world."
New Vampire Cinema
Author: Ken Gelder
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1838717293
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
New Vampire Cinema lifts the coffin lid on forty contemporary vampire films, from 1992 to the present day, charting the evolution of a genre that is, rather like its subject, at once exhausted and vibrant, inauthentic and 'original', insubstantial and self-sustaining. Ken Gelder's fascinating study begins by looking at Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula and Fran Rubel Kuzui's Buffy the Vampire Slayer – films that seemed for a moment to take vampire cinema in completely opposite directions. New Vampire Cinema then examines what happened afterwards, across a remarkable range of reiterations of the vampire that take it far beyond its original Transylvanian setting: the suburbs of Sweden (Let the Right One In), the forests of North America (the Twilight films), New York City (Nadja, The Addiction), Mexico (Cronos, From Dusk Till Dawn), Japan (Blood: The Last Vampire,
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1838717293
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
New Vampire Cinema lifts the coffin lid on forty contemporary vampire films, from 1992 to the present day, charting the evolution of a genre that is, rather like its subject, at once exhausted and vibrant, inauthentic and 'original', insubstantial and self-sustaining. Ken Gelder's fascinating study begins by looking at Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula and Fran Rubel Kuzui's Buffy the Vampire Slayer – films that seemed for a moment to take vampire cinema in completely opposite directions. New Vampire Cinema then examines what happened afterwards, across a remarkable range of reiterations of the vampire that take it far beyond its original Transylvanian setting: the suburbs of Sweden (Let the Right One In), the forests of North America (the Twilight films), New York City (Nadja, The Addiction), Mexico (Cronos, From Dusk Till Dawn), Japan (Blood: The Last Vampire,
Vampires in the New World
Author: Louis H. Palmer III
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313391343
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
This book provides an engaging historical survey of the vampire in American popular culture over 100 years, ranging from Bram Stoker's classic novel Dracula to HBO's television series True Blood. Vampires in the New World surveys vampire films and literature from both national and historical perspectives since the publication of Bram Stoker's Dracula, providing an overview of the changing figure of the vampire in America. It focuses on such essential popular culture topics as pulp fiction, classic horror films, film noir, science fiction, horror fiction, blaxploitation, and the recent Twilight and True Blood series in order to demonstrate how cultural, scientific, and ideological trends are reflected and refracted through the figure of the vampire. The book will fascinate anyone with an interest in vampires as they are found in literature, film, television, and popular culture, as well as readers who appreciate horror and supernatural fiction, crime fiction, science fiction, and the gothic. It will also appeal to those who are interested in the interplay between society and film, television, and popular culture, and to readers who want to understand why the figure of the vampire has remained compelling to us across different eras and generations.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313391343
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
This book provides an engaging historical survey of the vampire in American popular culture over 100 years, ranging from Bram Stoker's classic novel Dracula to HBO's television series True Blood. Vampires in the New World surveys vampire films and literature from both national and historical perspectives since the publication of Bram Stoker's Dracula, providing an overview of the changing figure of the vampire in America. It focuses on such essential popular culture topics as pulp fiction, classic horror films, film noir, science fiction, horror fiction, blaxploitation, and the recent Twilight and True Blood series in order to demonstrate how cultural, scientific, and ideological trends are reflected and refracted through the figure of the vampire. The book will fascinate anyone with an interest in vampires as they are found in literature, film, television, and popular culture, as well as readers who appreciate horror and supernatural fiction, crime fiction, science fiction, and the gothic. It will also appeal to those who are interested in the interplay between society and film, television, and popular culture, and to readers who want to understand why the figure of the vampire has remained compelling to us across different eras and generations.
Finding Love Over The Rainbow Gay Romance Fantasy Collection
Author: Mark Pace
Publisher: Gay Romance Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Share the adventures with these hot guys as they find true love in this gay romance fantasy collection. Seductive vampires and innocent twinks. Fairy tales with princes and a shapeshifting curse. Best friends falling in love in a gay version of the Wizard of Oz. Could it get any more fantastic than that? Enjoy these five gay romance stories which take you over the rainbow, out of the coffin, and into the woods. Bobby and the Beast Prince Christopher is as conceited as he is handsome. After his overwhelming ego offends an evil sorcerer, Christopher is transformed into a hideous beast. He has only a limited time to fulfill a near-impossible condition or the curse will remain with him forever. Bobby is a stunning and innocent twink whose father is imprisoned at Prince Christopher's castle. Bobby offers himself in his father's place. It isn't long before a friendship begins to blossom between the happy-go-lucky Bobby and the newly-humbled Prince. As the Prince-turned-beast wonders, how can a man whose beauty is more than skin-deep ever come to love a creature such as himself? The Gay Vampire Next Door Nobody believes college student Kenny Dawkins when he says that a vampire moved in next door - despite the fact that the handsome and mysterious new neighbor first showed up at midnight dragging a large rectangular box into his basement. When Kenny and his best friend Sam decide to investigate further, Kenny finds out that spying on his hot, older neighbor has all kinds of unintended consequences. It's time for the young man to find out if it's true that vampires suck – in more ways than one! The Wicked Hot Wizard of Oz Farm boy Donny Windham has two big problems: he's in the closet; and he's in love with his straight best friend! His solution? Run away from home to someplace he's not the only gay guy in a two hundred mile radius of his family's Kansas farm. Before he can leave, a tornado transports Donny and his little dog Toto to the magical Land of Oz where they encounter Lions and Tylers and Gay Bears - oh my! Donny makes new friends along the way including the scantily clad Good Warlock of the North, the sassy Scarecrow, the brokenhearted Tin Woodman, and the Cowardly Lion. Of course, there's the small matter of the Wicked Warlock of the West who'll stop at nothing to see Donny dead! On his fantastical journey down the Yellow Brick Road towards the Emerald City to meet the Wicked Hot Wizard of Oz, Donny discovers one important thing: There's no place like home, especially if it's with the man of his dreams. The Prince and the Pill When a sexy stranger arrives at the castle, the "queen" devises a unique test to determine if his claims of being a real gay prince are true. Has Prince Andrew finally found another true gay prince with whom to share his kingdom (and his muscular body) in the Enchanted Forest? First Time with the Gay Vampire Drew Carlton is a 25 year old athletic hunk who doesn't know how good-looking he really is. He's waited a long time for the special night when he enters Club Fangtasy, nervous about his first time with a man. Especially a man who also happens to be a vampire. Ben Wilhelm won't reveal his age. (Isn't it rude to ask a vampire how old he is?) Ben's not looking for love; he's just looking for a warm place to sink his fangs for the night. When he sees the young stud across the dance floor, feelings are awakened deep within him that he hasn't experienced in over a century. The revelation of a shocking secret organization raises the stakes, putting both their lives in jeopardy. What do you do when your survival depends on someone you don't really trust? Will the dark desires and forbidden attraction between a vampire and a human lead to eternal love or the final nail in the coffin?
Publisher: Gay Romance Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Share the adventures with these hot guys as they find true love in this gay romance fantasy collection. Seductive vampires and innocent twinks. Fairy tales with princes and a shapeshifting curse. Best friends falling in love in a gay version of the Wizard of Oz. Could it get any more fantastic than that? Enjoy these five gay romance stories which take you over the rainbow, out of the coffin, and into the woods. Bobby and the Beast Prince Christopher is as conceited as he is handsome. After his overwhelming ego offends an evil sorcerer, Christopher is transformed into a hideous beast. He has only a limited time to fulfill a near-impossible condition or the curse will remain with him forever. Bobby is a stunning and innocent twink whose father is imprisoned at Prince Christopher's castle. Bobby offers himself in his father's place. It isn't long before a friendship begins to blossom between the happy-go-lucky Bobby and the newly-humbled Prince. As the Prince-turned-beast wonders, how can a man whose beauty is more than skin-deep ever come to love a creature such as himself? The Gay Vampire Next Door Nobody believes college student Kenny Dawkins when he says that a vampire moved in next door - despite the fact that the handsome and mysterious new neighbor first showed up at midnight dragging a large rectangular box into his basement. When Kenny and his best friend Sam decide to investigate further, Kenny finds out that spying on his hot, older neighbor has all kinds of unintended consequences. It's time for the young man to find out if it's true that vampires suck – in more ways than one! The Wicked Hot Wizard of Oz Farm boy Donny Windham has two big problems: he's in the closet; and he's in love with his straight best friend! His solution? Run away from home to someplace he's not the only gay guy in a two hundred mile radius of his family's Kansas farm. Before he can leave, a tornado transports Donny and his little dog Toto to the magical Land of Oz where they encounter Lions and Tylers and Gay Bears - oh my! Donny makes new friends along the way including the scantily clad Good Warlock of the North, the sassy Scarecrow, the brokenhearted Tin Woodman, and the Cowardly Lion. Of course, there's the small matter of the Wicked Warlock of the West who'll stop at nothing to see Donny dead! On his fantastical journey down the Yellow Brick Road towards the Emerald City to meet the Wicked Hot Wizard of Oz, Donny discovers one important thing: There's no place like home, especially if it's with the man of his dreams. The Prince and the Pill When a sexy stranger arrives at the castle, the "queen" devises a unique test to determine if his claims of being a real gay prince are true. Has Prince Andrew finally found another true gay prince with whom to share his kingdom (and his muscular body) in the Enchanted Forest? First Time with the Gay Vampire Drew Carlton is a 25 year old athletic hunk who doesn't know how good-looking he really is. He's waited a long time for the special night when he enters Club Fangtasy, nervous about his first time with a man. Especially a man who also happens to be a vampire. Ben Wilhelm won't reveal his age. (Isn't it rude to ask a vampire how old he is?) Ben's not looking for love; he's just looking for a warm place to sink his fangs for the night. When he sees the young stud across the dance floor, feelings are awakened deep within him that he hasn't experienced in over a century. The revelation of a shocking secret organization raises the stakes, putting both their lives in jeopardy. What do you do when your survival depends on someone you don't really trust? Will the dark desires and forbidden attraction between a vampire and a human lead to eternal love or the final nail in the coffin?
Naughty Girls Need It Too: Lacy's Hot Sexy Story Collection
Author: Lacy Wren
Publisher: Gayrotica Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Ready to get hot and bothered? Lacy's sizzling explicit tales will get you excited in all the right places. A naughty taste of what Lacy has in store for you in several erotic stories: Best friends exploring new feelings. A tough cop on a deserted road and a sex-starved driver. The older guy across the street and a slutty cheerleader. An experienced vampire and an innocent college girl. A hairy security guard and a naughty shoplifter. The sultry secretary and a horny Wall Street businessman... Stories Included: Doing Her Hot Older Neighbor - Which will get "manhandled" more by the hunky new neighbor, the moving boxes or Brittany? Frisked (& More) by the Cop - Will Lori let the hot cop have his way with her in exchange for getting out of a speeding ticket? Friends To Lovers - When his best friend Jill asks Chad to rub tanning oil on her back, will passions explode? Naughty Nightclub Hookup - Horny slut Kady scopes out a nightclub to find the blue collar stud of her dirty dreams. Spanked by the Security Guard - When cheerleader Patrice gets caught shoplifting, the brutish security guard puts the college coed over his hairy knee. Submitting To Her Boss – Has Jasmine been harboring a secret desire to submit to her alpha male boss's kinky advances? Vampire Next Door - When college student Kendra spies on her hot, older neighbor, the vampire takes more from the innocent young woman than her blood! Double Spanked By Santa – A hairy mall Santa gives two best friends an over the knee spanking on their pretty bottoms.
Publisher: Gayrotica Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Ready to get hot and bothered? Lacy's sizzling explicit tales will get you excited in all the right places. A naughty taste of what Lacy has in store for you in several erotic stories: Best friends exploring new feelings. A tough cop on a deserted road and a sex-starved driver. The older guy across the street and a slutty cheerleader. An experienced vampire and an innocent college girl. A hairy security guard and a naughty shoplifter. The sultry secretary and a horny Wall Street businessman... Stories Included: Doing Her Hot Older Neighbor - Which will get "manhandled" more by the hunky new neighbor, the moving boxes or Brittany? Frisked (& More) by the Cop - Will Lori let the hot cop have his way with her in exchange for getting out of a speeding ticket? Friends To Lovers - When his best friend Jill asks Chad to rub tanning oil on her back, will passions explode? Naughty Nightclub Hookup - Horny slut Kady scopes out a nightclub to find the blue collar stud of her dirty dreams. Spanked by the Security Guard - When cheerleader Patrice gets caught shoplifting, the brutish security guard puts the college coed over his hairy knee. Submitting To Her Boss – Has Jasmine been harboring a secret desire to submit to her alpha male boss's kinky advances? Vampire Next Door - When college student Kendra spies on her hot, older neighbor, the vampire takes more from the innocent young woman than her blood! Double Spanked By Santa – A hairy mall Santa gives two best friends an over the knee spanking on their pretty bottoms.
Spanish Vampire Fiction since 1900
Author: Abigail Lee Six
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351398180
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Spanish Vampire Fiction since 1900: Blood Relations, as that subtitle suggests, makes the case for considering Spanish vampire fiction an index of the complex relationship between intercultural phenomena and the specifics of a time, place, and author. Supernatural beings that drink blood are found in folklore worldwide, Spain included, and writers ranging from the most canonical to the most marginal have written vampire stories, Spanish ones included too. When they do, they choose between various strategies of characterization or blend different ones together. How much will they draw on conventions of the transnational corpus? Are their vampires to be local or foreign; alluring or repulsive; pitiable or pure evil, for instance? Decisions like these determine the messages texts carry and, when made by Spanish authors, may reveal aspects of their culture with striking candidness, perhaps because the fantasy premise seems to give the false sense of security that this is harmless escapism and, since metaphorical meaning is implicit, it is open to argument and, if necessary, denial. Part I gives a chronological text-by-text appreciation of all the texts included in this volume, many of them little known even to Hispanists and few if any to non-Spanish Gothic scholars. It also provides a plot summary and brief background on the author of each. These entries are free-standing and designed to be consulted for reference or read together to give a sense of the evolution of the paradigm since 1900. Part II considers the corpus comparatively, first with regard to its relationship to folklore and religion and then contagion and transmission. Spanish Vampire Fiction since 1900: Blood Relations will be of interest to Anglophone Gothic scholars who want to develop their knowledge of the Spanish dimension of the mode and to Hispanists who want to look at some canonical texts and authors from a new perspective but also gain an awareness of some interesting and decidedly non-canonical material.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351398180
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Spanish Vampire Fiction since 1900: Blood Relations, as that subtitle suggests, makes the case for considering Spanish vampire fiction an index of the complex relationship between intercultural phenomena and the specifics of a time, place, and author. Supernatural beings that drink blood are found in folklore worldwide, Spain included, and writers ranging from the most canonical to the most marginal have written vampire stories, Spanish ones included too. When they do, they choose between various strategies of characterization or blend different ones together. How much will they draw on conventions of the transnational corpus? Are their vampires to be local or foreign; alluring or repulsive; pitiable or pure evil, for instance? Decisions like these determine the messages texts carry and, when made by Spanish authors, may reveal aspects of their culture with striking candidness, perhaps because the fantasy premise seems to give the false sense of security that this is harmless escapism and, since metaphorical meaning is implicit, it is open to argument and, if necessary, denial. Part I gives a chronological text-by-text appreciation of all the texts included in this volume, many of them little known even to Hispanists and few if any to non-Spanish Gothic scholars. It also provides a plot summary and brief background on the author of each. These entries are free-standing and designed to be consulted for reference or read together to give a sense of the evolution of the paradigm since 1900. Part II considers the corpus comparatively, first with regard to its relationship to folklore and religion and then contagion and transmission. Spanish Vampire Fiction since 1900: Blood Relations will be of interest to Anglophone Gothic scholars who want to develop their knowledge of the Spanish dimension of the mode and to Hispanists who want to look at some canonical texts and authors from a new perspective but also gain an awareness of some interesting and decidedly non-canonical material.