Dracula's Guest by Michael Sims
For fans of Bram Stoker and Stephenie Meyer alike-a scintillating collection of gems from the golden age of vampire stories.
'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' Daily Mail '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' Entertainment Weekly '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' Los Angeles Times
Michael Sims is the author of acclaimed nature and science books such as Apollo's Fire: A Day on Earth in Nature and Imagination and Adam's Navel: A Natural and Cultural History of the Human Form, and most recently of a companion volume to the National Geographic Channel series In the Womb. He has edited numerous anthologies, including recently The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime: Con Artists, Burglars, Rogues, and Scoundrels from the Time of Sherlock Holmes. His essays and articles have appeared in periodicals ranging from New Statesman to American Archaeology. He lives in western Pennsylvania.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781408808252 |
| ISBN 10 | 1408808250 |
| Title | Dracula's Guest |
| Author | Michael Sims |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2010-10-04 |
| Number of pages | 480 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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