The fantastic vampire
Subtitle: studies in the children of the night : selected essays from the Eighteenth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts
By: edited by James Craig Holte.
Contributors: Holte, James Craig.
Series: Contributions to the study of science fiction and fantasy,; no. 91
Publisher: Greenwood Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
Subjects: Stoker, Bram, 1847-1912. -- Congresses.; Vampires in literature -- Congresses.; Fantasy fiction, English -- History and criticism -- Congresses.; Fantasy fiction, American -- History and criticism -- Congresses.; Popular literature -- English-speaking countries -- History and criticism -- Congresses.; Horror tales, American -- History and criticism -- Congresses.; Horror tales, English -- History and criticism -- Congresses.; Vampire films -- History and criticism -- Congresses.; Dracula, Count (Fictitious character) -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-153) and index.
Conference held in 1997 in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Part One: Studies in Stoker; title: 1. Shapeshifting Dracula: The Abridged Edition of 1901; title: Elizabeth Miller; title: 2. Brain Stoker and Irish Gothic; title: Raymond T. McNally; title: 3. Dracula 's Reflection: The Jewel of Seven Stars; title: Katie Harse; title: 4. "Appalling in Its Gloomy Fascination": Stoker's Dracula and Wilde's Salome; title: William Pencak; title: 5. Stoker's Dracula: A Neo-Gothic Experiment; title: Scott Vander Ploeg; title: 6. Men in Love: The Fantasizing of Bram Stoker and Edvard Munch; title: Suzanna Nyberg; title: Part Two: The Vampire in Film and Popular Culture; title: 7. Bela Lugosi's Dead, but Vampire Music Stalks the Airwaves; title: Tony Fonseca; title: 8. Policing Eddie Murphy: The Unstable Black Body in Vampire in Brooklyn; title: Leslie Tannenbaum; title: 9. Resurrection in Britain: Christopher Lee and Hammer Draculas; title: James Craig Holte; title: 10. I, Strahd: Narrative Voice andVariations on a Non-Player Character in; title: TSR's "Ravenloft" Universe; title: Margaret Carter; title: Part Three: Modem Vampire Fictions; title: 11. The Mother Goddess in H. Rider Haggard's She and Anne Rice's The Queen of the Damned; title: Bette Roberts; title: 12. Blood Spirit/Blood Bodies: The Viral in the Vampire Chronicles of Anne Rice and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro; title: Heidi L. Nordberg; title: 13. Kelene: The Facein the Mirror; title: Stephanie Moss; title: 14. The Construction of the Vampire in Yarbro's Hotel Transylvania; title: Sharon A. Russell; title: Part Four: Contemporary Issues in theWorld of the Undead; title: 15. Deadly Kisses: Vampirism, Colonialism, and the Gendering of Horror; title: Teri Ann Doerksen; title: 16. "A Girl Like That Will Give You AIDS!": Vampirism as AIDS Metaphor in Killing Zoe; title: Jeane Rose; title: Selected Bibliography; title: Index; title: About the Contributors.