100 Vicious Little Vampire Stories
From INTRODUCTION: What is a vampire? Nearly a century ago, this question wasn't difficult to answer. If you subscribed to the image of the vampire immortalized in Stoker's 1897 novel, Dracula, the vampire was evil incarnate, a creature whose supernatural existence and gruesome means of...
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From INTRODUCTION: What is a vampire? Nearly a century ago, this question wasn't difficult to answer. If you subscribed to the image of the vampire immortalized in Stoker's 1897 novel, Dracula, the vampire was evil incarnate, a creature whose supernatural existence and gruesome means of sustenance contradicted the norms by which civilized human beings measured what was natural and morally proper. With his nocturnal habits, the vampire served as a potent symbol for humanity's unenlightened superstitions; in his evocation of primal darkness, he became a counter-symbol of the divinity who turned the darkness of the void into light.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781566195584 (1566195586)
Publish date: January 1st 1995
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Books
Pages no: 588
Edition language: English
I like reading short stories, so this collection of them about vampires was a very interesting read. Some stories were really confusing while I liked some of the others. A very nice read.
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