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ESSAY: Lestat’s Precursors: The Vroucolacas in America

October 17, 2024

The previous post in this series examined stories by Edgar Allan Poe, Washington Irving, and Ambrose Bierce that explored the themes of macabre resurrection and twisted sexuality, thereby helping to pave the way for later generations of American vampire literature. However, none of these ...

Bookmarked, Essays

ESSAY: Lestat’s Precursors: Vampires in the American Canon

October 10, 2024

AMC’s Interview with the Vampire saw its second season this year, along with news that it had been renewed for a third season. There is evidently still life in the Anne Rice books which formed the basis of the series and gave the world the vampire antiheroes, Louis and Lestat.

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WWAC’s Favorite Manga of 2022

January 10, 2023

For WWAC’s manga readers, 2022 has been a year of blood, guts and romance! Our top picks of the year include stories about vampires, high school sex-ed classes, and many more interesting and unusual stories that caught our attention and refused to let it go. And if you want to see what we ...

Bookmarked, Essays

Nosferatu’s Kindred, Part 3: Goethe and The Bride of Corinth

March 16, 2022

Continuing a series that celebrates the centenary of Nosferatu with an overview of German vampire literature.

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Nosferatu’s Kindred, Part 2: Gottfried August Bürger and Lenore

March 8, 2022

Continuing the series that celebrates the centenary of Nosferatu with an overview of German vampire literature.

Bookmarked, Reviews

Vampirella: Blood Invasion Breaststrokes Boobily Down the Stream

January 21, 2020

Dynamite Entertainment ventures into the world of prose novels with Vampirella: Blood Invasion, featuring a gorgeous cover by Jenny Frison. Unfortunately, the inside pages could use a little more polish.

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The Vampyre’s Legacy, Part 12: One More Decade

December 31, 2019

Two centuries ago, Dr. John Polidori’s story “The Vampyre” was published, and vampire literature was born. The Vampyre’s Legacy series has charted the evolution of the genre over two hundred years, taking one story from each decade to use as a case study. But the most recent decade ...

Bookmarked, Essays, Television and Film

The Vampyre’s Legacy, Part 11: Urban Fantasies

November 28, 2019

The period following the publication of Anne Rice’s Interview with a Vampire saw vampire fiction entrench itself not as a subgenre of horror, but as a substantial body of fiction in its own right. Author David J. Schow would look back on this state of affairs in his 2018 collection DJStories: ...

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The Vampyre’s Legacy, Part 10: Sympathy for the Devil

October 29, 2019

During the sixties and seventies, pop culture was hit by an explosion of interest in the occult. Aleister Crowley glowered from the cover of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band while Mick Jagger sang “Sympathy for the Devil”, and before long Black Sabbath would be embracing Gothic imagery as ...

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The Vampyre’s Legacy, Part 9: Atom-Age Vampires

September 19, 2019

As far back as the nineteenth century, certain writers had tried to demystify vampires by coming up with scientific explanations for their condition and behaviour. James Malcolm Rymer’s ramshackle Varney the Vampire introduced – and later abandoned – the notion that its main character was a man ...

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ESSAY: Lestat’s Precursors: The Vroucolacas in America

ESSAY: Lestat’s Precursors: Vampires in the American Canon

WWAC’s Favorite Manga of 2022

Nosferatu’s Kindred, Part 3: Goethe and The Bride of Corinth

Nosferatu’s Kindred, Part 2: Gottfried August Bürger and Lenore

Vampirella: Blood Invasion Breaststrokes Boobily Down the Stream

The Vampyre’s Legacy, Part 12: One More Decade

The Vampyre’s Legacy, Part 11: Urban Fantasies

The Vampyre’s Legacy, Part 10: Sympathy for the Devil

The Vampyre’s Legacy, Part 9: Atom-Age Vampires

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