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ideal autumn reading list starter kit

Vampire Fiction

Der Vampir (1848)

Lenore (1773)

The Bride of Corinthe (1797)

Thalaba the Destroyer (1801)

The Vampyre (1810)

The Giaour (1813)

Christabel (1816)

La Morte Amoureuse (1836)

The Family of a Vourdalak (1843)

Varney the Vampire (1847)

A Mysterious Stranger (1860)

Knightshade (1860)

La Vampire (1865)

Carmilla (1872)

La Ville Vampire (1874)

After Ninety Years (1880)

The Fate of Madame Cabanel (1880)

Manor (1884)

The True Story of a Vampire (1894)

Lilith (1895)

Dracula (1897)

Academic

The Vampire in Literature up until Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula’

Karl Ulrichs’ ‘Manor’: Homosexuality and Vampirism

The Aesthetics of Horror in Stoker’s Dracula

Terror and the Sublime

The Living Dead: A Study of the Vampire in Romantic Literature

The Vampire in Nineteenth Century English Literature

The Guise of the Vampire in Myth and Literature

Daughters of Lilith: Women Vampires in Literature