The Monster with a Thousand Faces: Guises of the Vampire in Myth and Literature
- ISBN-10
- 0879724595
- ISBN-13
- 9780879724597
- Category
- Vampires
- Pages
- 152
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1989
- Publisher
- Popular Press
- Author
- Brian J. Frost
Description
Brian Frost chronicles the history of the vampire in myth and literature, providing a sumptuous repast for all devotees of the bizarre. In a wide-ranging survey, including plot summaries of hundreds of novels and short stories, the reader meets an amazing assortment of vampires from the pages of weird fiction, ranging from the 10,000-year-old femme fatale in Robert E. Howard's Conan the Conqueror to the malevolent fetus in Eddy C. Bertin's “Something Small, Something Hungry.” Nostalgia buffs will enjoy a discussion of the vampire yarns in the pulp magazines of the interwar years, while fans of contemporary vampire fiction will also be sated.
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