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Genre/Form: | Fiction Belletristische Darstellung Ausgabe Anthologie |
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Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Michael Sims |
ISBN: | 9781408809969 1408809966 |
OCLC Number: | 793480331 |
Description: | 467 Seiten |
Responsibility: | ed. by Michael Sims. |
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'This creepy conoisseur's collection of Victorian vampire stories is PACKED with pointy-toothed blood-suckers and gruesome ghastliness ... Think Christopher Lee in his coffin, red eyes snapping open, dust off your wooden stake and garlic necklace, and blame the 18th century Eastern Europeans whose peasant superstitions spawned the whole gory vampire genre' * <i>Daily Mail</i> * 'Long before vampires were sparkly and romantic, they were actually scary. This collection brings together some of the Victorian era's most chilling bloodsucker fiction' * <i>Entertainment Weekly</i> * 'Vampire stories didn't begin with Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series, Anne Rice's bayou bloodsuckers or even Bram Stoker's Dracula in 1897. What one finds, in reading Dracula's Guest, is that these creatures emerged from 18th century accounts of Eastern European peasant superstitions, then got a boost from the Romantic movement. . . . Almost from the beginning, the vampire story wasn't just a creepy encounter with the Other Side; it was thinly veiled erotica. The undead were hot long before Hollywood and the fan obsession surrounding Eclipse, the latest installment in the Twilight series' * <i>Los Angeles Times</i> * Read more...