Author : Paul Barber
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,74 MB
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780300048599
Surveys centuries of folklore about vampires and offers a scientific explanation for the origins of the legends.
Author : Margie Fuston
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,21 MB
Release : 2021-08-24
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1534474595
An ALA Morris Award Finalist! In this “equal parts heartbreaking and joyful” (School Library Journal) debut YA novel that’s The Coldest Girl in Coldtown meets They Both Die at the End, a teen girl takes a trip to New Orleans with her estranged best friend to find a vampire to save her dying father. Victoria and her dad have shared a love of the undead since the first vampire revealed his existence on live TV. Public fear soon drove the vampires back into hiding, yet Victoria and her father still dream about finding a vampire together. But when her dad is diagnosed with terminal cancer, it’s clear that’s not going to happen. Instead, Victoria vows to find a vampire herself—so that she can become one and then save her father. Armed with research, speculations, and desperation—and helped by her estranged best friend, Henry—Victoria travels to New Orleans in search of a miracle. There she meets Nicholas, a mysterious young man who might give her what she desires. But first, he needs Victoria to prove she loves life enough to live forever. She agrees to complete a series of challenges, from scarfing sugar-drenched beignets to singing with a jazz band, all to show she has what it takes to be immortal. But truly living while her father is dying feels like a betrayal. Victoria must figure out how to experience joy and grief at once, trusting all the while that Nicholas will hold up his end of the bargain…because the alternative is too impossible to imagine.
Author : Christopher Buehlman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 27,29 MB
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0698146328
WINNER OF THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION’S BEST HORROR NOVEL OF THE YEAR “As much F. Scott Fitzgerald as Dean Koontz” (#1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Briggs), Christopher Buehlman excels in twisting the familiar into newfound dread in his “genre-bending” (California Literary Review) novels. Now the acclaimed author of Those Across the River delivers his most disquieting tale yet... The secret is, vampires are real and I am one. The secret is, I’m stealing from you what is most truly yours and I’m not sorry... New York City in 1978 is a dirty, dangerous place to live. And die. Joey Peacock knows this as well as anybody—he has spent the last forty years as an adolescent vampire, perfecting the routine he now enjoys: womanizing in punk clubs and discotheques, feeding by night, and sleeping by day with others of his kind in the macabre labyrinth under the city’s sidewalks. The subways are his playground and his highway, shuttling him throughout Manhattan to bleed the unsuspecting in the Sheep Meadow of Central Park or in the backseats of Checker cabs, or even those in their own apartments who are too hypnotized by sitcoms to notice him opening their windows. It’s almost too easy. Until one night he sees them hunting on his beloved subway. The children with the merry eyes. Vampires, like him…or not like him. Whatever they are, whatever their appearance means, the undead in the tunnels of Manhattan are not as safe as they once were. And neither are the rest of us.
Author : Isaac Fellman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 20,18 MB
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0143136917
A whirlwind romance between an eccentric archivist and a grieving widow explores what it means to be at home in your own body in this clever, humorous, and heartfelt novel. When archivist Sol meets Elsie, the larger than life widow of a moderately famous television writer who's come to donate her wife's papers, there's an instant spark. But Sol has a secret: he suffers from an illness called vampirism, and hides from the sun by living in his basement office. On their way to falling in love, the two traverse grief, delve into the Internet fandom they once unknowingly shared, and navigate the realities of transphobia and the stigmas of carrying the "vampire disease." Then, when strange things start happening at the collection, Sol must embrace even more of the unknown to save himself and his job. DEAD COLLECTIONS is a wry novel full of heart and empathy, that celebrates the journey, the difficulties and joys, in finding love and comfort within our own bodies.
Author : April Fernsby
Publisher : April Fernsby
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 31,78 MB
Release : 2017-05-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781393786177
It was only a matter of time before someone put an end to the evil vampire, Uriah Firenze. Uriah had made himself extremely unpopular in the paranormal town of Brimstone. His scathing comments and nasty actions gained him many enemies. Justice witch, Cassia Winter, investigates Uriah's murder with the help of her cat, Stanley. Cassia has more than one opportunity to use her magical powers as their investigation progresses. They probe deeper into the mystery and discover a shocking secret from Uriah's past. Is it related to his murder? More secrets are revealed and the sleuthing duo are taken down a new path. They get closer to the killer but at what cost to their own safety? A gripping mystery with a surprising conclusion.
Author : Kimberly Raye
Publisher : Ivy Books
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 29,43 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0345492161
Fantasy-roman.
Author : Charlaine Harris
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 39,81 MB
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101622458
THE FINAL NOVEL IN THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SOOKIE STACKHOUSE SERIES—the inspiration for the HBO® original series True Blood. When a shocking murder rocks the small town of Bon Temps, Louisiana, psychic cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse learns that she has more than one enemy waiting to get vengeance for the past. Beacuse nothing is ever clear-cut in Bon Temps. What passes for truth is only a convenient lie. What passes for justice is more spilled blood. And what passes for love is never enough...
Author : Josh Reynolds
Publisher : Black Library
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 31,66 MB
Release : 2013-01-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781849705363
The vampire queen Neferata plots to create a new empire. Neferata is a queen without a kingdom. Lahmia has fallen, her vampire children have scattered and she is reduced to draining blood from the beasts of the mountains. After a chance encounter with a party of dwarfs, she sets her sights on a capital for her new empire - the stronghold of Silver Pinnacle. She calls her allies to battle - but can she truly trust Ushoran, Lord of Masks, and his bestial Strigoi vampires?
Author : Michael E. Bell
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 12,71 MB
Release : 2013-04-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0819571717
These stories of vampire legends and gruesome nineteenth-century practices is “a major contribution to the study of New England folk beliefs” (The Boston Globe). For nineteenth-century New Englanders, “vampires” lurked behind tuberculosis. To try to rid their houses and communities from the scourge of the wasting disease, families sometimes relied on folk practices, including exhuming and consuming the bodies of the deceased. Folklorist Michael E. Bell spent twenty years pursuing stories of the vampire in New England. While writers like H.P. Lovecraft, Henry David Thoreau, and Amy Lowell drew on portions of these stories in their writings, Bell brings the actual practices to light for the first time. He shows that the belief in vampires was widespread, and, for some families, lasted well into the twentieth century. With humor, insight, and sympathy, he uncovers story upon story of dying men, women, and children who believed they were food for the dead. “A marvelous book.” —Providence Journal Includes an updated preface covering newly discovered cases.
Author : James B. Twitchell
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 42,85 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822307891
In his Preface to The Living Dead: A Study of the Vampire in Romantic Literature, James Twitchell writes that he is not interested in the current generation of vampires, which he finds "rude, boring and hopelessly adolescent. However, they have not always been this way. In fact, a century ago they were often quite sophisticated, used by artists varied as Blake, Poe, Coleridge, the Brontes, Shelley, and Keats, to explain aspects of interpersonal relations. However vulgar the vampire has since become, it is important to remember that along with the Frankenstein monster, the vampire is one of the major mythic figures bequeathed to us by the English Romantics. Simply in terms of cultural influence and currency, the vampire is far more important than any other nineteenth-century archetypes; in fact, he is probably the most enduring and prolific mythic figure we have. This book traces the vampire out of folklore into serious art until he stabilizes early in this century into the character we all too easily recognize.
