BOOKS WITH BITE PRESENTS -- TAKE A BITE

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.

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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 origins 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.

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 OUT NOW

Biscuits & Catatonia 

short story in NonBinary Review Issue #36: Heredity 

on the Zoetic Press website

Women with Bite: Tracing Vampire Women from Lilith to Twilight

Asterisks and Anomalies.
Online: https://asterisksandanomalies.org/articles/09-24/nancyschumann.html 

Cover page of the Heredity issue of the nonbinary review magazine
Image of book cover of short story anthology Impossible Spaces, showing a view into a spiral staircase
image of the cover of short story anthology Nothing by Hic Dragones
image of the book cover of short story anthology Into The Woods

Impossible Spaces

including The Hostel

by Nancy Schumann

Watch the trailer

Short Story Anthologies from His Dragones

Listen to my short story The Village beautifully narrated by the marvellous Christopher Herron on Tall Tale TV via a channel of your choice. Happy Halloween season

YouTube: https://youtu.be/axzSDjJrJHg

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TallTaleTV/

Tall Tale TV Website: https://talltaletv.com/the-village/

Creepy - A Horror Podcast


Featuring Dead Tired by
Nancy Schumann on Patreon

Nothing including 

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Spot. 

Hic Dragones

Watch the trailer

Into the Woods

including

A Winter’s Tale by 

Nancy Schumann

Watch the trailer

Dracula: An International Perspective

Palgrave Macmillan

including Emotions and Identity in Vampire Literature
by Nancy Schumann

Journal article: Sleeping with the Vampire in Gothic Studies 23.3 (2021): 316–331 

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Academic Publications

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.

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cover of The Universal Vampire, an academic publication with essays on various subjects around vampires in fiction

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Available on YouTube

Books with Bite’s talk: Sleeping with the Vampire with Romancing the Gothic from 17 December 2022


Books with Bite’s talks with Toothpickings on 

Motherhood, Murder, and Mayhem: Female Vampires in Recent Centuries 

and

Who is Lilith?