Vampyres by Christopher Frayling
Lord Byron to Count Dracula
A richly illustrated cultural history of the vampire, tracing the figure’s journey from Eastern European folklore through nineteenth-century Gothic fiction to stage, cinema, and modern popular culture. It explores how the undead embody shifting anxieties about sexuality, disease, class, and the foreign “other,” and shows how each era reshaped the myth—from shadowy aristocrats and plague-bearers to sympathetic antiheroes—through literature, art, posters, and film, revealing why this nocturnal icon remains endlessly adaptable and alluring.
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- Published
- 1991
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- British
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- English
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