The Vampyre

The first chapter attempted to give an outline of what the term vampire referred to in the eighteenth and nineteenth century and in what sort of narrative they usually appeared in. Romantic poets discovered the vampire's potential as a combination of popular Romantic themes such as love, death and supernatural occurrences. Not all of them use the word vampire, but creatures which are closely related to the typical literary vampire are usually included in histories of the literary vampire as proto-vampiric

Another Strange Woman In The Attic The always clever and cunning Sherlock Holmes manages to crack another case in Arthur Conan Doyle’s short story named The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire. The short story is part of twelve Sherlock Holmes stories, which were collected between the years 1921-1927 and published under the following name The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes. The intricate short stories were first published in January 1924 by The Strand Magazine in London, and they proved to be immensely

Passage one is from One’s a Heifer by Ross Sinclair. The major theme of this short story is being afraid to grow up. This quote, from passage one identifies the theme as it explains the main character wanting to understand the secret of becoming mature by looking, “inside the stall”. However, the main character is unable to grow up and understand maturity as he is “afraid of seeing”. Passage two quote is from “Coraline” by Neil Gaiman. The main idea of “Coraline” is that getting everything a character

Many New Woman writers proclaimed that domesticity could not be the be-all-end-all purpose in a woman’s life; they aligned themselves with the belief that women should be allowed to express themselves politically, creatively, and sexually. (Tremper 110) Perhaps this is why Ann Radcliffe, the obscure first female writer of Gothic fiction, was a pioneer in more ways than one. Although no evidence indicates that she recognized her status as a New Woman author, her terrifying novels rivaled those of

The words, “Pop culture is more and more about skulls and skeletons and zombies and vampires, and that’s not just on Halloween” were said by Michael Almereyda who is a film director of America. Similarly, the essays “Vampires Never Die,” and “Our Zombies, Ourselves: Why we can’t get the undead off our brains” from Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan, and James Parker respectively point out about the zombies and vampires. Vampires, and zombies are the creatures of the night. Vampires feed on human

Bram Stoker’s Dracula: A View of the Victorian Era and its Social Ideologies For my research project, I chose Bram Stoker and his work Dracula, and the social implications that came with the story. Not only are vampires a relevant topic to today’s youth due to other books, movies, etc., but Stoker’s Dracula has stayed prevalent to the changing times. No matter how many different takes there are on Bram Stoker’s legendary novel, the timeless classic-ness of his work is never lost. I wanted to do

decided to tell each other ghost stories to pass the time away. What manifested that faithful night became two legendry tales of horror and science gone wrong, as mentioned in Guy Haley’s book Sci-Fi Chronicles, “Polidori produced a short story, The Vampyre, which was more influential initially and provided the impetus for the creation of the modern vampire myth, but it was the 19-year-old Mary who produced a novel that would come to be regarded as the first work of science fiction“ (Haley 19).

I have had a long attraction to vampires ever since I was a young person. I remember watching the movie INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (1994) for the first time, I was mesmerized. Louis played by the actor Brad Pitt and Le Stat played by Tom Cruise were sophisticated, worldly, exciting and most of all sexy. They were not sexy in the traditional sense of “tall, dark and handsome”, more like pale and with sunken in eyes, but yet I found myself deeply attracted to them. I found their lure and mysteriousness

Hogan, author of novels such as, Devils in Exile and Prince of Thieves, wrote an article in the New York Times named Why vampires never die, explaining exactly that. They stated how the vampires became big when author John William Polidori wrote The Vampyre, which included both erotic feelings and the fact that they’re an undead bunch. Also included in the article is how it ties in with cannibalism and how that’s the way the culture was. Vampires have this type of aura that tie you in and make you want

vampires use their fangs to drink the blood from their victims. Could you imagine a vampire with normal teeth? Trying to puncture human skin would be difficult. Vampires also have known to be sophisticated looking such as in John Polidori’s 1819 novel Vampyre. If you notice in the novel they are described as being sophisticated instead of looking like something that just came out of the