Blood and Roses [Old Edition]: The Vampire in 19th Century Literature

By James Havoc and Sabrina Blackburry

Book Overview

The definitive collection of 19th century literature in which the vampire, or vampirism - both embodied and atmospheric-appears. In a single volume charged with sex, blood and horror, 17 seminal texts... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1871592143
• ISBN13: 9781871592146
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: The Tears Corporation/Creation
• Length: 283 Pages
• Weight: 1.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 6.3" x 0.8"

Customer Reviews

A Great Compilation of Gothic Short Stories

(Note: I have the 1992 edition.)I have to disagree with the other reviewer; I enjoyed the introductory critical essay, "The Erogenous Disease." Vampires and sex go together like ... blood and roses?I always want to know what stories are included in anthologies and its usually never listed, which drives me batty, so here they are: The Vampyre by John Polidori, Smarra (an excerpt) by Charles Nodier, The Beautiful Dead by Theophile Gautier, Ligeia by Edgar Allan Poe, The Feast of Blood (an excerpt) by J.M. Rymer, Hane Eyre (excerpts) by Charlotte Bronte, The Vampire's Metamorphoses by Charles Baudelaire, The House and the Brain by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Phantoms by Ivan Turgenev, Madoror - The First Song by Isidore Ducasse, Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu, The Horla by Guy de Maupassant, La-Bas (an excerpt) by Joris-Karl Huysmans, The Picture of Dorian Gray (an excerpt) by Oscar Wilde, The Inmost Light by Arthur Machen, The True Story of A Vampire by Count Stenbock, and Dracula (yea!) (excerpts) by Bram Stoker.For the selections that are only excerpts, I recommend reading the whole thing if you haven't already. There are also a few nice (freakish) illustrations.

WOW!

I loved this book. It strikes the gothic romantic in all of us!!