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Blood thirst : 100 years of vampire fiction
Title:
Blood thirst : 100 years of vampire fiction
Author:
Wolf, Leonard.
Publication Information:
New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
Physical Description:
379 pages ; 23 cm
Language:
English
Contents:
I: The Classic Adventure Tale : The story of Chūgorō / Lafcadio Hearn -- Count Magnus / M.R. James -- For the blood is the life / F. Marion Crawford -- The drifting snow / August Derleth -- Salem's lot (excerpt) / Stephen King -- II: The Psychological Vampire : Luella Miller / Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman -- The transfer / Algernon Blackwood -- The girl with the hungry eyes / Fritz Leiber -- Torch song / John Cheever -- Bellefleur (excerpt) / Joyce Carol Oates --III: The Science Fiction Vampire : Shambleau / C.L. Moore -- The hunger (excerpt) / Whitley Strieber -- I am legend (excerpt) / Richard Matheson -- Vanishing breed / Leslie Roy Carter -- Unicorn tapestry / Suzy McKee Charnas -- A child of darkness / Susan Casper -- IV: The Non-human Vampire : The spider / Hanns Heinz Ewers -- Negotium perambulans / E.F. Benson -- The stainless steel leech / Roger Zelazny -- Bite-me-not, or, Fleur de feu / Tanith Lee -- V: The Comic Vampire : Blood / Frederic Brown -- Blood brother / Charles Beaumont -- Count Dracula / Woody Allen -- VI: The Heroic Vampire : Hotel Transylvania (excerpt) / Chelsea Quinn Yarbro -- The master of Rampling Gate / Anne Rice -- Good kids / Edward Bryant -- Exposure / Laura Anne Gilman.
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ISBN:
9780195115932
Format :
Book