The Monster with a Thousand Faces: Guises of the Vampire in Myth and Literature

ISBN-13: 9780879724597 / Angielski / Twarda / 1989 / 160 str.

Brian J. Frost

Opis

Brian Frost chronicles the history of the vampire in myth and literature, providing a sumptuous repast for all devotees of the bizarre. In a wide-ranging survey, including plot summaries of hundreds of novels and short stories, the reader meets an amazing assortment of vampires from the pages of weird fiction, ranging from the 10,000-year-old femme fatale in Robert E. Howard s Conan the Conqueror to the malevolent fetus in Eddy C. Bertin s Something Small, Something Hungry. Nostalgia buffs will enjoy a discussion of the vampire yarns in the pulp magazines of the interwar years, while fans of contemporary vampire fiction will also be sated."