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Full Description
An entirely original look at the evolution of a cultural phenomenon. As John Edgar Browning puts it in his Foreword, "Vampires are pure culture, and culture needs 'diggers' like Kevin Dodd.
Contents
Foreword by John Edgar Browning; Introduction; Acknowledgments; Beginnings of the Nineteenth-Century Vampires; "Long After His Body Had Been Buried, It Vexed Many:" The European/English Revenant and the Beginnings of the Vampire; "Materializing Shadows:" The Norse "Again-walker" as a Remote Template for the Vampire; "An Evil Kind of Animal:" 300 Years of the Monstrous Vampire Bat up to the Nineteenth Century; The Vampire Bat and Monster; "Blood Suckers Most Cruel:" The Vampire and the Bat in and before Dracula; "That Demonical Face with Staring Fixed Saucer Eyes:" The Other Nineteenth Century "Blood Sucking Vampire"; Gender and Sexuality; "With Whom Do You Think You Have Been Dealing:" Making Love to Evil: Woman, the Devil, and the Nineteenth-Century Vampire; "A Person of My Sex:" The Transgendered Vampire of the Nineteenth Century; "A Yearning Drove Me Here to You:" The Male Homosexual Vampire of the Nineteenth Century; "Now I Know What Love Is!:" The Lesbian Vampire of the Nineteenth Century; The Sympathetic and Merciful Vampire; "My Greatest Torture Is Life Itself:" The Tragic or Sympathetic Vampire in the Nineteenth Century; "I Am Not as These: I Have Mercy:" The Benign or Benevolent Vampire of the Nineteenth Century
