Download or read book The Vampire Peasant written by Eileen Aiyana Taylor and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vanni Bellini is an Italian vampire. He was turned into one by a pureblood in the early 1820s at the age of seventeen. His parents died in the mid-1800s, leaving him alone. It is now the year 2020, with all the high-end fashion and modern-day technology. Since he only makes four hundred dollars a month to live off of, he has no extra money to spend on new things. He is stuck living with the possessions he has had since the 1800s. There are some upsides though. For one, the royal family has passed a law for the peasants to go to school. He’s now a junior in high school with hope for a better future. He wants more than anything to uplift his peasant name. Peasants in his day and age are looked down on. They are beaten, spit on, and called names, called worthless. Some even say that they just shouldn’t be alive. Vanni is different somehow. He has a knack for always finding himself in bad situations. Since he is mateless, no one is there to save him. There is no one to protect him. What will happen when he finds himself at the royal castle with two uninvited guests? They are offering him a better life, a life with no beatings or suicide comments. But what’s the catch? Nothing comes free. Everything comes with a price, but what is it? Will his mate ever come for him?

Download or read book The Black Lily written by Juliette Cross and published by Entangled: Amara. This book was released on 2017-03-27 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every day, the threat of the Varis family grows stronger—especially to the humans they rule over. And with every minute that Arabelle spends doing chores for vain, entitled aristocrats, her resolve to overthrow the vampire monarchy increases. She is the leader of the underground resistance, The Black Lily. And she’s waited long enough. Now is the perfect time to ignite the rebellion. The plan? Attend the vampire prince’s blood ball. And kill him. Dagger in hand, Arabelle is caught off guard by the immediate spark she shares with Prince Marius. It doesn’t help that he’s listening to her and seems so kind and understanding. Arabelle is sworn to kill Marius at all costs, but what if Prince Charming is more than he appears to be? Because now he knows the truth...and she’ll have to do whatever she can to save her people. Each book in the Vampire Blood series is STANDALONE: * The Black Lily * The Red Lily * The White Lily * The Emerald Lily

Download or read book Dracula s Daughters written by Douglas Brode and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2013-12-24 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost as long as cinema has existed, vampires have appeared on screen. Symbolizing an unholy union between sex and death, the vampire—male or female—has represented the libido, a “repressed force” that consumed its victims. Early iconic representations of male vampires were seen in Nosferatu (1922) and Dracula (1931), but not until Dracula’s Daughter in 1936 did a female “sex vampire” assume the lead. Other female vampires followed, perhaps most provocatively in the Hammer films of the 1950s, ’60s, and ’70s. Later incarnations, in such films as Near Dark (1987) and From Dusk till Dawn (1996), offered modern takes on this now iconic figure. In Dracula’s Daughters: The Female Vampire on Film, Douglas Brode and Leah Deyneka have assembled a varied collection of essays that explore this cinematic type that simultaneously frightens and seduces viewers. These essays address a number of issues raised by the female vampire film, such as violence perpetrated on and by women; reactions to the genre from feminists, antifeminists, and postfeminists; the implications of female vampire films for audiences both gay and straight; and how films reflected the period during which they were created. Other topics include female vampire films in relationship to vampire fiction, particularly by women such as Anne Rice; the relationship of the vampire myth to sexually transmitted diseases like AIDS; issues of race and misogyny; and the unique phenomenon of teen vampires in young adult books and films such as Twilight. Featuring more than thirty photos spanning several decades, this collection offers a compelling assessment of an archetypal figure—an enduring representation of dark desires—that continues to captivate audiences. This book will appeal not only to scholars and students but also to any lover of transgressive cinema.

Download or read book Transylvanian Vampires written by Adriana Groza and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-02-28 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authentic vampire tales exist in Transylvanian folklore--yet the Transylvanian vampire is nothing like the bloodthirsty count of Bram Stoker's imagination or the romantic hero of popular fiction. The Romanian tradition reflects the norms of peasant life and wisdom embedded in age-old communities. This book consists of 21 narratives developed from brief accounts recorded by local anthropologists and historians from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The goal is to capture the major themes found in the existing sources. The book also includes translations of 17 brief folk stories about Vlad Ţepeş, known as Dracula. Contrary to the prevailing fictive image, these stories portray Vlad as a wise although strict ruler and a proud defender of his country's autonomy. An introduction discusses the Transylvanian village and its rich folk traditions, making explicit the comparison to the historic and to the fictional Dracula.

Download or read book Peasants Populism and Postmodernism written by Dr Tom Brass and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the way in which the agrarian myth has emerged and re-emerged over the past century in ideology shared by populism, postmodernism and the political right, the argument in this book is that at the centre of this discourse about the cultural identity of 'otherness'/ 'difference' lies the concept of and innate 'peasant-ness'. In a variety of contextually-specific discursive forms, the 'old' populism of the 1890s and the nationalism and fascism in Europe, America and Asia during the 1920s and 1930s were all informed by the agrarian myth. The postmodern 'new' populism and the 'new' right, both of which emerged after the 1960s and consolidated during the 1990s, are also structured discursively by the agrarian myth, and with it the ideological reaffirmation of peasant essentialism.

Download or read book Vampyres Genesis and Resurrection from Count Dracula to Vampirella written by Christopher Frayling and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expanded, fully illustrated, and up-to-date edition of the classic cultural history of vampires Vampyres is a comprehensive and generously illustrated history and anthology of vampires in literature, from the folklore of eastern Europe to the Romantics and beyond. It incorporates extracts from a huge range of sources—from Bram Stoker’s detailed research notes for Dracula to penny dreadfuls, to Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber (new to this edition) which is analyzed by the author in a broader cultural context. This revised and expanded edition of the 1978 classic brings Vampyres up to date with twenty-first-century vampire literature, including new text extracts, commentary, and a revised introduction. For the first time, Christopher Frayling also explores the development of the vampire in the visual arts in four color-plate sections, with illustrations ranging from eighteenth-century prints to twenty-first-century film stills, demonstrating the enduring appeal of the vampire from popular press to fine art and, finally, to film.

Download or read book The Vampire in Nineteenth Century English Literature written by Carol A. Senf and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2013-02 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carol A. Senf traces the vampire’s evolution from folklore to twentieth-century popular culture and explains why this creature became such an important metaphor in Victorian England. This bloodsucker who had stalked the folklore of almost every culture became the property of serious artists and thinkers in Victorian England, including Charlotte and Emily Brontë, George Eliot, Charles Dickens, Karl Marx, and Friedrich Engels. People who did not believe in the existence of vampires nonetheless saw numerous metaphoric possibilities in a creature from the past that exerted pressure on the present and was often threatening because of its sexuality.

Download or read book The Vampire written by Alan Dundes and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1998-10-15 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vampires are the most fearsome and fascinating of all creatures of folklore. For the first time, detailed accounts of the vampire and how its tradition developed in different cultures are gathered in one volume by eminent folklorist Alan Dundes. Eleven leading scholars from the fields of Slavic studies, history, anthropology, and psychiatry unearth the true nature of the vampire from its birth in graveyard lore to the modern-day psychiatric patient with a penchant for drinking blood. The Vampire: A Casebook takes this legend out of the realm of literature and film and back to its dark beginnings in folk traditions. The essays examine the history of the word “vampire;” Romanian vampires; Greek vampires; Serbian vampires; the physical attributes of vampires; the killing of vampires; and the possible psychoanalytic underpinnings of vampires. Much more than simply a scary creature of the human imagination, the vampire has been and continues to haunt the lives of all those who encounter it—in reality or in fiction.

Download or read book Interview with the Vampire written by Anne Rice and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 1991-09-13 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The spellbinding classic that started it all, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author—the inspiration for the hit television series “A magnificent, compulsively readable thriller . . . Rice begins where Bram Stoker and the Hollywood versions leave off and penetrates directly to the true fascination of the myth—the education of the vampire.”—Chicago Tribune Here are the confessions of a vampire. Hypnotic, shocking, and chillingly sensual, this is a novel of mesmerizing beauty and astonishing force—a story of danger and flight, of love and loss, of suspense and resolution, and of the extraordinary power of the senses. It is a novel only Anne Rice could write.

Download or read book Postcolonial Urbanism written by Ryan Bishop and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A common assumption about cities throughout the world is tht they are essentially an elaboration of the Euro-American model. Postcolonial Urbanism demonstrates the narrowness of this vision. Cities in the postcolonial world, the book shows, are producing novel forms of urbanism not reducible to Western urbanism. Despite being heavily colonized in the past, Southeast Asia has been largely ignored in discussions about postcolonial theory and in general considerations of global urbanism. An international cast of contributors focuses on the heavily urbanized world region of Southeast Asia to investigate the novel forms of urbanism germinating in postcolonial settings such as Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Hanoi, and the Philippines. Offering a mix of theoretical perspectives and empirical accounts, Postcolonial Urbanism presents a panoramic view of the cultures, societies, and politics of the postcolonial city.

Download or read book Tales of Vampires Werewolves written by Robert E. Howard and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2021-05-07 with total page 3694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vampires and werewolves have existed alongside humans since antiquity, or at least the tales of them. Reawaken the fear, the dread and the obsession with the creatures of the night with this meticulously edited collection of the greatest horror classics of all time: Vampires: The Vampyre (John William Polidori) Dracula (Bram Stoker) Dracula's Guest (Bram Stoker) Clarimonde (Théophile Gautier) Carmilla (Sheridan Le Fanu) Vikram and the Vampire (Sir Richard Francis Burton) The Vampire (Jan Neruda) Varney the Vampire, or, the Feast of Blood (Thomas PeckettPrest and James Malcolm Rymer) The Vampire of Croglin Grange (Augustus Hare) The Vampire Maid (Hume Nisbet) The Room in the Tower (E. F. Benson) Mrs.Amworth (E. F. Benson) Vampires and Vampirism (Dudley Wright) Werewolves: The Lay of the Were-Wolf (Marie de France) The Wolf Leader (Alexandre Dumas Père) Wagner the Wehr-wolf (George W. M. Reynolds) The Werewolf (Eugene Field) The Man-Wolf (ÉmileErckmann&AlexandreChatrian) The Mark of the Beast (Rudyard Kipling) The Horror-Horn (E. F. Benson) In the Forest of Villefére (Robert E. Howard) Wolfshead (Robert E. Howard) Werewolf of the Sahara (Gladys Gordon Trenery) The Werewolf Howls (Clifford Ball)

Download or read book Latin American Peasants written by Tom Brass and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this collection examine agrarian transformation in Latin America and the role in this of peasants, with particular reference to Bolivia, Peru, Chile, Brazil and Central America. Among the issues covered are the impact of globalization and neo-liberal economic policies on peasant economy and rural labour, the historical and contemporary nature of peasant/state relations, debates over Amazonian peasantries, forms taken by local/regional/national peasant ideology/agency, and political disputes over agrarian reform. Land still remains on the agenda of most Latin American peasants, who continue to be politically active, not just in Chiapas (Mexico), nor in ways stipulated by post-modern, post-colonial and post-development theory.

Download or read book Celluloid Vampires written by Stacey Abbott and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2009-03-06 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1896, French magician and filmmaker George Méliès brought forth the first celluloid vampire in his film Le manoir du diable. The vampire continues to be one of film's most popular gothic monsters and in fact, today more people become acquainted with the vampire through film than through literature, such as Bram Stoker's classic Dracula. How has this long legacy of celluloid vampires affected our understanding of vampire mythology? And how has the vampire morphed from its folkloric and literary origins? In this entertaining and absorbing work, Stacey Abbott challenges the conventional interpretation of vampire mythology and argues that the medium of film has completely reinvented the vampire archetype. Rather than representing the primitive and folkloric, the vampire has come to embody the very experience of modernity. No longer in a cape and coffin, today's vampire resides in major cities, listens to punk music, embraces technology, and adapts to any situation. Sometimes she's even female. With case studies of vampire classics such as Nosferatu, Martin, Blade, and Habit, the author traces the evolution of the American vampire film, arguing that vampires are more than just blood-drinking monsters; they reflect the cultural and social climate of the societies that produce them, especially during times of intense change and modernization. Abbott also explores how independent filmmaking techniques, special effects makeup, and the stunning and ultramodern computer-generated effects of recent films have affected the representation of the vampire in film.

Download or read book The Empire of the Tsars written by Anatole Leroy-Beaulieu and published by Jovian Press. This book was released on 2017-12-20 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Russians themselves will say at times they have no history. Some, like Tchaadáyef of old, deplore the fact in melancholy strain, passionate and eloquent, nor can anything console them for having missed the most brilliant epochs of European life, or allay their fears that, for lack of the same trials and upbringing, their country never can achieve the same civilization, for that a nation without a past is also without a future. Others, more numerous, boldly congratulate themselves on the same fact, boasting of their freedom from the trammels of all tradition and all prejudice, from the fetters of a past in which, in spite of her revolutions, old Europe remains entangled...

Download or read book Vampires vs Werewolves Ultimate Collection written by Bram Stoker and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 4319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The beasts prowl in the dark alleys to prey on their suspicious victims. The vampires come out at night to snatch innocent passerby for hearty meals. The werewolves sink their teeth into the soft flesh. e-artnow presents to you a selection of the greatest horror classics, a collection like no other, to make your hair rise in fear and anticipation. _x000D_ Contents:_x000D_ Vampires:_x000D_ The Vampyre (John William Polidori)_x000D_ Dracula (Bram Stoker)_x000D_ Dracula's Guest (Bram Stoker)_x000D_ Clarimonde (Théophile Gautier)_x000D_ Carmilla (Sheridan Le Fanu)_x000D_ Vikram and the Vampire (Sir Richard Francis Burton)_x000D_ The Vampire (Jan Neruda) _x000D_ Varney the Vampire, or, the Feast of Blood (Thomas PeckettPrest and James Malcolm Rymer)_x000D_ The Vampire of Croglin Grange (Augustus Hare)_x000D_ Aylmer Vance and the Vampire (Alice and Claude Askew)_x000D_ The Vampire Maid (Hume Nisbet) _x000D_ The Room in the Tower (E. F. Benson)_x000D_ Mrs.Amworth (E. F. Benson)_x000D_ Vampires and Vampirism (Dudley Wright)_x000D_ I, the Vampire (Henry Kuttner)_x000D_ The House of the Vampire (George Sylvester Viereck)_x000D_ Vampires of Venus (Anthony Pelcher)_x000D_ Doom of the House of Duryea (Earl Peirce)_x000D_ Isle of the Undead (Lloyd Arthur Eshbach)_x000D_ Four Wooden Stakes (Victor Rowan) _x000D_ Each Man Kills (Victoria Glad)_x000D_ Werewolves:_x000D_ The Lay of the Were-Wolf (Marie de France)_x000D_ The Wolf Leader (Alexandre Dumas Père)_x000D_ Wagner the Wehr-wolf (George W. M. Reynolds)_x000D_ The Werewolf (Eugene Field)_x000D_ The Man-Wolf (ÉmileErckmann&AlexandreChatrian)_x000D_ The Mark of the Beast (Rudyard Kipling)_x000D_ The Horror-Horn (E. F. Benson)_x000D_ In the Forest of Villefére (Robert E. Howard)_x000D_ Wolfshead (Robert E. Howard)_x000D_ Werewolf of the Sahara (Gladys Gordon Trenery)_x000D_ The Werewolf Howls (Clifford Ball)_x000D_ The Were-Wolf (Clemence Housman)_x000D_ The Book of Were-Wolves (Sabine Baring-Gould)_x000D_ The Origin of the Werewolf Superstition (Caroline Taylor Stewart)

Download or read book Vampires vs Werewolves Boxed Set written by Bram Stoker and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2021-05-07 with total page 4319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Musaicum Books presents to you a selection of the greatest horror classics,the greatest Vampire and Werewolf tales: Contents: Vampires: The Vampyre (John William Polidori) Dracula (Bram Stoker) Dracula's Guest (Bram Stoker) Clarimonde (Théophile Gautier) Carmilla (Sheridan Le Fanu) Vikram and the Vampire (Sir Richard Francis Burton) The Vampire (Jan Neruda) Varney the Vampire, or, the Feast of Blood (Thomas PeckettPrest and James Malcolm Rymer) The Vampire of Croglin Grange (Augustus Hare) Aylmer Vance and the Vampire (Alice and Claude Askew) The Vampire Maid (Hume Nisbet) The Room in the Tower (E. F. Benson) Mrs.Amworth (E. F. Benson) Vampires and Vampirism (Dudley Wright) I, the Vampire (Henry Kuttner) The House of the Vampire (George Sylvester Viereck) Vampires of Venus (Anthony Pelcher) Doom of the House of Duryea (Earl Peirce) Isle of the Undead (Lloyd Arthur Eshbach) Four Wooden Stakes (Victor Rowan) Each Man Kills (Victoria Glad) Werewolves: The Lay of the Were-Wolf (Marie de France) The Wolf Leader (Alexandre Dumas Père) Wagner the Wehr-wolf (George W. M. Reynolds) The Werewolf (Eugene Field) The Man-Wolf (ÉmileErckmann&AlexandreChatrian) The Mark of the Beast (Rudyard Kipling) The Horror-Horn (E. F. Benson) In the Forest of Villefére (Robert E. Howard) Wolfshead (Robert E. Howard) Werewolf of the Sahara (Gladys Gordon Trenery) The Werewolf Howls (Clifford Ball) The Were-Wolf (Clemence Housman) The Book of Were-Wolves (Sabine Baring-Gould) The Origin of the Werewolf Superstition (Caroline Taylor Stewart)

Download or read book Vampire Films Around the World written by James Aubrey and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2020-10-09 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vampires are arguably the most popular and most paradoxical of gothic monsters: life draining yet passionate, feared yet fascinating, dead yet immortal. Vampire content produces exquisitely suspenseful stories that, combined with motion picture filmmaking, reveal much about the cultures that enable vampire film production and the audiences they attract. This collection of essays is generously illustrated and ranges across sixteen cultures on five continents, including the films Let the Right One In, What We Do in the Shadows, Cronos, and We Are the Night, among many others. Distinctly different kinds of European vampires have originated in Ireland, Germany, Sweden, and Serbia. North American vampires are represented by films from Mexico, Canada, and the USA. Middle Eastern locations include Tangier, Morocco, and a fictional city in Iran. South Asia has produced Bollywood vampire films, and east Asian vampires are represented by films from Korea, China, and Japan. Some of the most recent vampire movies have come from Australia and New Zealand. These essays also look at vampire films through lenses of gender, post-colonialism, camp, and otherness as well as the evolution of the vampiric character in cinema worldwide, together constituting a mosaic of the cinematic undead.