Vampires in literatureGothic literature History and criticismLiterature, AmericanLiterature, ComparativeHoly, The, in literatureThesisThis dissertation investigates the experience of the numinous in a specific category of Gothic literature, which employs a vampire as the primary focus of its action, ...
The Vampire Historian Podcast is a discussion of the vampire in history, folklore, literature, television and film. It is hosted by Dax Stokes.
Why is the supernatural associated with gothic literature? Why was gothic literature created? Why did Bram Stoker become a writer? Why did Bram Stoker like vampires as a child? Why did Dracula go to Whitby in the novel Dracula? Why was gothic literature popular in Victorian times?
This chapter outlines a brief history of gay vampires in literature, focusing on Karl Heinrich Ulrich and Bram Stoker before moving on to gay vampires on the big and small screens. We examine the teen film genre with Fright Night , Once Bitten , and The Lost Boys followed by an exploration...
Ghost is in the background of most of Europe in the middle ages? This is because the first as a result of the classic vampire literature. Coupled with the standard vampires always lived in the castle in the middle ages in Europe, and hundreds of thousands of years, and vampires are super...
As other female vampires appeared in succeeding decades, primarily in short stories, the lesbian element often hovered in the background. However, while there was a recurring lesbian presence in vampire literature, the same could not be said of male homosexuality. The male vampires of the ...
The history and social layers of the state infuse the series. This title, a recent find set in New Orleans during and immediately after Katrina and then Rita, is one of the best so far. The storms’ devastation, a shooting of looters who picked the wrong house, and Robicheaux’s family...
While the 1897 novel 'Dracula' launched a genre of literature and film about vampires, a 1922 film cast the villain in a whole new light.
While Shuruppak’s fatherly wisdom is one of the most ancient examples of written literature, history’s oldest known fictional story is probably the “Epic of Gilgamesh,” a mythic poem that first appeared as early as the third millennium B.C. The adventure-filled tale centers on a Sumerian...
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