Vampire Literature

Robin A. Werner and Elizabeth Miller Lewis are instructors in the Department of English at the University of New Orleans.

Introduction: What Is a Vampire?Vampires and Power

John William Polidori, The Vampyre (1819)
James Malcolm Rymer and Thomas Pecket Prest, from Varney the Vampire (1847)
Vasile Alecsandri, 'Vampire (Strigoiul)' (1886)
Bram Stoker, 'Dracula's Guest' (1914)
Henrik Galeen, Nosferatu (1922)
Richard Matheson, 'Drink My Blood' (1951)

Vampires and Immortality

Elizabeth Grey, 'The Skeleton Count; or, The Vampire Mistress' (1828)
Mary Elizabeth Braddon, 'The Good Lady Ducayne' (1896)
Arabella Kenealy, 'A Beautiful Vampire' (1896)
Philip K. Dick, 'The Cookie Lady' (1953)

Vampires and Race

Uriah Derick D'Arcy, from 'The Black Vampyre: A Legend of Saint Domingo' (1819)
Florence Marryat, from The Blood of the Vampire (1897)
James Weldon Johnson, 'The White Witch' (1922)
William Crain, from Blacula (1972)
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, from Devil on the Cross (1980)
Jewelle Gomez, from 'Rosebud, Missouri: 1921,' The Gilda Stories (1991))
Ibi Aanu Zoboi, 'Old Flesh Song' (2004)
Octavia E. Butler, from Fledgling (2005)

Vampires and Sexuality

Henrich August Ossenfelder, 'Der Vampir' (1748)
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 'The Bride of Corinth' (1797)
Sheridan Le Fanu, Carmilla (1872)
Eric Stenbock, 'The True Story of a Vampire' (1894)
Anne Rice, 'The Master of Rampling Gate' (1984)
Billy Martin, from Lost Souls (1992)

Vampire Hunger

C.L. Moore, 'Shambleau' (1933)
Fritz Lieber, 'The Girl with the Hungry Eyes' (1949)
Angela Carter, 'The Lady of the House of Love' (1979)
Karen Russell, 'The Vampires in the Lemon Grove' (2013)

Vampire Family

Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, 'The Family of the Vourdalak' (1839)
Stephen King, 'One for the Road' (1977)
Jane Yolen, 'Mama Gone' (1991)
Toni Brown, 'Immunity' (1996)
Nalo Hopkinson, 'Greedy Choke Puppy' (2001)
Silvia-Moreno Garcia, 'A Handful of Earth' (2011)
Kazuki Sakuraba, from A Small Charred Face (2014)

Illustrations

Criticism

Sigmund Freud, from 'The Uncanny' (1919)
Franco Moretti, 'III. The Strategy of Terror,' from 'The Dialectic of Fear' (1982)
Christopher Craft, from '‘Kiss Me with Those Red Lips': Gender and Inversion in Bram Stoker's Dracula' (1984)
Stephen D. Arata, from 'The Occidental Tourist: Dracula and the Anxiety of Reverse Colonization' (1990)
Sue-Ellen Case, from 'Tracking the Vampire' (1991)
Nina Auerbach, 'Introduction: Living with the Undead,' Our Vampires, Ourselves (1995)
Carol A. Senf, from 'Daughters of Lilith: Women Vampires in Popular Literature' (1999)
Kendra R. Parker, from 'Introduction: The First Bite,' Black Female Vampires in African American Women's Novels, 1977–2011: She Bites Back (2018)

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