Over the past century the figure of the vampire has undergone many transformations--from Bram Stoker's original Dracula to Anne Rice's VAMPIRE CHRONICLES. BLOOD READ examines a wide range of vampire narratives from the perspective of both writers and scholars and shows how these transformations reflect ongoing changes in postmodern culture.
Table of Contents
Foreword: Vampires--The Ancient Fear--Brian Aldiss
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: The Shape of Vampires--Joan Gordon, Veronica Hollinger
2. My Vampire, My Friend: The Intimacy Dracula Destroyed-Nina Auerbach
3. Metaphor into Metonymy: The Vampire Next Door--Jules Zanger
4. The Vampire as Alien in Contemporary Fiction--Margaret L. Carter
5. Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth: The Vampire in Search of Its Mother--Joan Gordon
6. Meditations in Red: On Writing The Vampire Tapestry--Suzy McKee Charnas
7. Sang for Supper: Notes on the Metaphorical Use of Vampires in The Empire of Fear and Young Blood--Brian Stableford
8. Recasting the Mythology: Writing Vampire Fiction--Jewelle Gomez
9. Dieting and Damnation: Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire--Sandra Tomc
10. When Hollywood Sucks, or, Hungry Girls, Lost Boys, and Vampirism in the Age of Reagan--Nicola Nixon
11. Consuming Youth: The Lost Boys Cruise Mallworld--Rob Latham
12. The Gilda Stories: Revealing the Monsters at the Margins--Miriam Jones
13. Coming Out of the Coffin: Gay Males and Queer Goths in Contemporary Vampire Fiction--Trevor Holmes
14. Techno-Gothic Japan: From Seishi Yokomizo's The Death's-Head Stranger to Mariko Ohara's Ephemera the Vampire--Mari
Kotani
15. Fantasies of Absence: The Postmodern Vampire--Veronica Hollinger
