So thebig one is Dracula, as represented in Dracula, where he takes centre stage for only a small part of the narrative(s). There are some good criticalstudies, the one I like the most being Nina Auerbach’s Our Vampires,Ourselves (1995). Thequestion is: what is a vampire? There are all the ‘factual’ answers, thestudies of myths & legends, but there are also all the many variations on a theme that various writers haveinvented to make their particular narratives work. That’s where this list began, & as I read(some) more, I have added to it, for pleasure only. My case is fairly straightforward I had read somevampire fiction, as a sub-category of dark fantasy, and enjoyed them then Idecided to give a course on Twentieth Century Vampires in Winter 2005, &felt I should read a lot more. And there are some recent novels I haven’t caught up to yet, some of which Iexpect to be quite good. It’s an essay/annotated list perhaps, but don’texpect any deep criticism, at best just something close to a series of reviews.There’s an awful lot of vampire fiction out there, & a lot of it is prettyawful. Some thoughts onVampires in recent fiction:
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