Dracula's Guest: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Vampire Stories [Kindle Edition]

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"Sims, editor on this brilliant collection, gathers stories in the undead written during what he loosely terms the Victorian era.... the bloodsuckers presented here are predators who can be averted only by Christian symbols, garlic, and little else. Do not expect sparkling Twilight vampires and even the good-guy types that sometimes appeared inside Buffy the Vampire Slayer franchise. An excellent addition to popular fiction and literature collections." --Library Journal (starred review)

"Dracula's Guest invokes the dangerous shadows of Victorian culture, those dark places where passion, terror, pathos, and sorrow mingle and merge. Gathering together canonical works together with less familiar knock-out masterpieces, Michael Sims has produced an anthology designed to help keep us all up at night."--Maria Tatar, professor and chair in the program in Folklore and Mythology at Harvard University, author of The Annotated Classic Favorite Anecdotes and Enchanted Hunters: The Ability of Stories in Childhood

"In this fine new anthology, Michael Sims brings on bearing his extensive knowledge of Victorian tales in addition to their tellers on the vampire genre. Despite the title, Sims's nets have caught fascinating material that pre-dates Dracula and also the Victorians. Some will probably be familiar (excerpts from works through the Abbé Calmet, Lord Byron, John Polidori, and Varney the Vampire, for example), but other authors and stories will likely be not used to many, revealing a critical depth and breadth to the thrall from the undead. With a thoughtful introduction to the volume also as each story, this book belongs inside the crypt of each and every student in the creatures from the night!"--Leslie S. Klinger, editor of The Modern Annotated Dracula and The Modern Annotated Sherlock Holmes

"Everyone loves a fantastic vampire story, but it takes a true aficionado by having an insatiable thirst for knowledge to ferret the roots of these monsters' enduring appeal. There is no better guide to the natural background and mythology with the Undead than Michael Sims."--Jennifer Ouellette, author of The Physics in the Buffyverse and Black Bodies and Quantum Cats
Before Twilight and True Blood, even before Buffy and Anne Rice and Bela Lugosi, vampires haunted the nineteenth century, when brilliant writers everywhere indulged their bloodthirsty imaginations, culminating in Bram Stoker's legendary 1897 novel, Dracula.
Michael Sims brings together the most effective vampire stories from the Victorian era-from England, America, France, Germany, Transylvania, as well as Japan-into a unique collection that highlights their cultural variety. Beginning while using supposedly true accounts that captivated Byron and Shelley, the stories range between Edgar Allan Poe's "The Oval Portrait" and Sheridan Le Fanu's "Carmilla" to Guy de Maupassant's "The Horla" and Mary Elizabeth Braddon's "Good Lady Ducayne." Sims also features a nineteenth-century travel tour of Transylvanian superstitions, and rounds the collection with Stoker's own "Dracula's Guest"-a chapter omitted from his landmark novel.
Vampires captivated the Victorians, as Sims reveals in his insightful introduction: In 1867, Karl Marx described capitalism as "dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor"; whilst in 1888 a London newspaper invoked vampires in attempting to explain Jack the Ripper's predations. At an occasion when vampires happen to be re-created in a very modern context, Dracula's Guest will remind readers young, old, as well as in between of why the undead won't rid yourself of our imagination.





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