In the shadow of the vampire
Subtitle: reflections from the world of Anne Rice
By: by Jana Marcus ; with an introduction by Katherine Ramsland
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 140
Subjects: Gothic revival (Literature); American Horror tales; Vampires in literature; Books and reading; Appreciation; American Fantasy fiction; Women and literature; In literature
Description: Anne Rice has single-handedly re-popularized the vampire genre for a massive international audience of every age and social class. In The Shadow Of The Vampire offers a close up view of her devotees and disciples, fangs and all. Over 100 photographs from Anne Rice's Memnoch Ball in New Orleans as well as other events serve as a portrait of this growing subculture.

The photographs illustrate the themes the readers relate to in their fantasies and everyday lives and the extremes to which they will go to be close to their mentor. The subjects of the photographs, the fans themselves, explain in accompanying interviews their spiritual relationships to romance, eroticism, loneliness, bloodlust or outsider status of the characters in the book.

From the people who sleep in coffins to the teenage Goth-rockers to the HIV-positive man who found a deep allegorical comfort in the vampire Lestat, their responses range from the burlesque to the sublime.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 139).