So my senior project is all about Vampires from the romantic period onward. I have like, three or four books in mind, but I want to be reading something other than Dracula (for the third time), Vampire Chronicles (for the third time <3), and Twilight (from a critical perspective I now go "D
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Vampire Hunter D series
The last man on earth
Vampire stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Salems' Lot by Stephen King
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I didn't know Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote vampire stories.
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While "Vampire Stories" has a couple that stretch whether it's truly a vampire story or not, there is also another book titled "Dracula's Brood" that is more likely to meet your needs. These are collections of various short stories by different authors, so it might be more time friendly as well, and includes pieces by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
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WE SHALL SEE. But I love that book.
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Also the Edgar Allen Poe story "The Fall of the House of Usher," can be interpretted in several ways, and there are some people who describe them as being the last of a sad house of vampires, especially since the sister pretty much lives through her own death and even exhibits superhuman strength in escaping her own tomb.
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But I might use Carmilla since it predates, and does feed into the sexuality of the vampire, considering the character was a lesbian, and I think that was the same time as the fallen woman poetry (like Christina Rosetti's Goblin Market) in the Victorian era.
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What's kind of fascinating about Carmilla is (I think?) it was the first work on vampirism to introduce the character of a vampire as being both evil and bloodthirsty, and lonely and seeking an eternal companion. After thoughtlessly killing probably dozens of peasant girls, for some reason she latches onto this one main character and becomes completely infatuated with her, and gets it into her head that they should be together forever. And now that's like, the foundation of nearly every vampire-human romance story.
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer - movie, series, comics
-- Would be good for showing how vampires burst into mainstream popculture well before the Twilight craze.
Kindred: The Embraced - tv series
Vampire: The Masquerade - vampires in roleplaying games ( ... )
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Yaay being a literature major x_x
...This looks really interesting. I may just have to read it regardless of I use it for this project or not.
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