Night Bites: Vampire Stories by Women Tales of Blood and Lust Victoria A Brownworth

This listing is for Night Bites: Vampire Stories by Women Tales of Blood and Lust Victoria A. Brownworth.

Paperback: 264 pages
Publisher: Seal Press (January 18, 1996)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1878067710
ISBN-13: 978-1878067715

From Bram Stoker's Dracula to the legendary Carmilla by LeFanu to Anne Rice's contemporary LeStat series, vampire stories have proved timeless. Following in this rich tradition, this collection of seductive vampire stories is by turns sexy and subversive--and certain to appeal to all fans of this increasingly popular genre.

Based largely on the murderous late-medieval figures Elizabeth of Bathory and Vlad the Impaler--both infamous for sucking or drinking their victims' blood--vampires seem to have become twentieth-century icons. Despite the plethora of vampire yarns and studies, Brownworth's is the first collection of vampire stories all by women. Particularly interesting are Toni Brown's "Immunity," set against a background of Afrocentric supernatural folklore, Judith M. Redding's "Unexpurgated Notes from a Homicide Case File," in which detective Teresa Dash considers the unusual case notes about four young black urbanites, Meredith Suzanne Baird's "They Have No Faces," which returns us to the original turf of the vampire in Eastern Europe, as does Judith Katz's chillingly funny and grotesque "Anita, Polish Vampire, Holds Forth at the Jewish Cafe of the Dead," in which the first Jewish vampire entertains a fascinated visiting scholar. Wonderfully broad-ranging, this anthology will find an appreciative audience among both vampire aficionados and just plain adventurous readers.

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