Books With Bite presents -- take a bite

Vampires: marginalised, blood-sucking, sexy … it’s hard to avoid these glamorous, dangerous creatures as they hold sway over the imagination. But, as the Twilight generation eagerly flocks to the cinema to watch film after film, do we understand how and why these mythical creatures have come to dominate popular culture? And, more importantly, how do women feature in this phenomenon – in our so-called ‘modern’ society does an empowered vampire queen exist, or are we all just lusting after Edward?

In this innovative analysis of folklore and Anglo-American literature, Nancy Schumann explores the representation of vampires and vampiresses from the Romantic era through to the Post-Modern. Tracing the development of blood-sucking figures from their origin through to Le Fanu’s Carmilla and Bram Stoker’s Dracula , before concluding with the Twilight and True Blood sagas, Take a Bite is a thorough and engaging analysis that puts women centre stage. Looking at both popular and less well-known texts, this engaging study tells the untold stories of vampiresses.

Take a Bite is available directly from Books with Bite. £10 including postage (UK/EU).

Order and pay via Paypal:
paypal.me/bookswithbite

For an e-book please contact: sales@bookswithbite.in

Take a Bite is a non-fictional text discussing female vampires in folklore and Anglo-American Literature and how their characteristics changed through the ages.

Impossible Spaces

including The Hostel

by Nancy Schumann

Deutschsprachige Publikationen auf www.bookswithbite.de

Books with Bite on Facebook

Review the books on Goodreads

Into the Woods

including

A Winter’s Tale by

Nancy Schumann

Watch the trailer here

Dracula: An International Perspective.

Palgrave Macmillan

including Emotions and Identity in Vampire Literature by Nancy Schumann

Women with Bite: Tracing Vampire Women from Lilith to Twilight in B. Brodman & J.E. Doan (Ed). The Universal Vampire: Origins and Evolution of a Legend; Fairleigh Dickinson UP.

Nothing including
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Spot.

Hic Dragones.

Short story Fishing for Compliments in Shadows Beneath the Surface: An Aquatic Horror Anthology (Dead Seas Book 2)

All proceeds to The Shark Trust