Vampires : encounters with the undead

Skal, David J. (Added Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9781579124755
ISBN: 1579124755
Physical Description: 585 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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Edition: 1st paperback ed.
Publisher: New York : Black Dog & Leventhal : Distributed by Workman Pub. co, 2006, c2001.

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Introduction : "There are no such things!" -- pt. 1: The historical evidence. From The book of vampires / Dudley Wright -- from The phantom world / Augustin Calmet -- Tale of a Russian vampire / Helena Petrovna Blavatsky -- Vampires of Roumania / Agnes Murgoci -- pt. 2: Romantic & Victorian vampires. The vampyre : a tale / John Polidori -- Loving Lady Death (La morte amoureuse) / Théophile Gautier -- The family of the Vourdalak / Alexis Tolstoy -- From Varney the vampyre, or, The feast of blood / James Malcolm Rymer -- Carmilla / J. Sheridan Le Fanu -- The fate of Madame Cabanel / Eliza Lynn Linton -- The true story of a vampire / Eric, Count Stenbock -- Good Lady Ducayne / Mary Elizabeth Baddon -- Dracula's guest / Bram Stoker -- From Dracula / Bram Stoker -- Fatal image : the artist, the actress, and the vampire / David J. Skal -- pt. 3: Vampires in the twentieth century. Luella Miller / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman -- Count Magnus / M.R. James -- The singular death of Morton / Algernon Blackwood -- For the blood is the life / F. Marion Crawford -- The room in the tower / E.F. Benson -- Vampires / Albin Grau -- The adventure of the Sussex vampire / Arthur Conan Doyle -- Bewitched / Edith Wharton -- "When she was fed" : Bela Lugosi's true-life vampire romance / Gladys Hall -- The dark castle / Marion Brandon -- Revelations in black / Carl Jacobi -- I, the vampire / Henry Kuttner -- The bat is my brother / Robert Bloch -- The girl with the hungry eyes / Fritz Leiber -- From I am legend / Richard Matheson -- Unicorn tapestry / Suzy McKee Charnas -- pt. 4: Postmodern vampires. From American vampires / Norine Dresser -- An interview with a "vampire" / David J. Skal -- Stalking the vampire / Rosemary Ellen Guiley -- Last call for the sons of shock / David J. Schow -- Coppola's Dracula / Kim Newman -- Bela's plot / Caitlín R. Kiernan.