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English (the largest section); Anthologies of Vampire Fiction and Verse; Non-English Vampire Fiction in Translation; Dramatic Works on Vampires in English; Nonfiction: Books; Nonfiction: Articles. The fiction entries have abbreviations that designate what sort of vampiric creature the reader may expect to encounter. For example AlH means a vampire who is Alien, Humanoid. Annual updates are available from the editor. |
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667. Cox, Greg. The Transylvanian Library: A Consumer's Guide to Vampire Fiction. San Bernardino, CA: Borgo Press, 1993. Hardcover. |
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In this bibliography of vampire fiction, witty annotations by Greg Cox make for lively reading about the undead. Beginning with the pre-Dracula stories like Polidori's The Vampyre, readers are treated to a chronological exploration of vampire fiction up to 1989. Cox is wonderfully opinionated and uses a rating system of one to four bats. Says Cox, "When I finally closed the door of this Library, The Queen of the Damned (see #204) had just seen print and Ronald Reagan was still president. Since then I have seen the vampire boom of the 1980s go thermonuclear." |
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668. Farson, Daniel. The Man Who Wrote Dracula: A Biography of Bram Stoker. New York: St. Martin's, 1975. Hardcover. |
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The great-nephew of Bram Stoker has written an entertaining account of his famous ancestor. Stoker loved the theater and gave up a safe civil service job to manage the career of the actor Sir Henry Irving as well as handle the business affairs of the Lyceum Theatre. A man of tremendous energy, he was able, during this same time, to obtain a degree in law and to write. But of course much of this book is devoted to the fictional Dracula and the evil Vlad Tepes, who may have been the inspiration for Stoker's most famous character. |
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669. Gordon, Joan, and Veronica Hollinger (editors). Blood Read: The Vampire as Metaphor in Contemporary Culture. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997. |
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This collection of fourteen essays focuses on the role of the vampire as metaphor in contemporary culture. It explores this aspect of the conventional horror figure in recent fiction and film and to some extent in television and comic books. The foreward is by Brian Aldiss; fiction writers Suzy McKee Charnas, Jewelle Gomez, and Brian Stableford |
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