Blood Thirst

In the past hundred years, since the publication of Bram Stoker's infamous book, no literary figure has enjoyed a more horrific resiliency than the vampire. In film, television, novels, and short stories, the vampire keeps coming back to life, fed by the vital imaginative energies of a world-wide audience; evolving from an unmitigated evil to a creature we are more likely to identify with. Now, in Blood Thirst: One Hundred Years of Vampire Fiction, Leonard Wolf brings together thirty tales in which vampires of all varieties make their ghastly presence felt. From such writers as Edith Wharton, Ray Bradbury, Anne Rice, and Woody Allen, and in settings as diverse as rural New England and outer space, this collection offers a dazzling compendium of stories. Whether readers find the vampires who inhabit these pages sympathetic or horrific, psychologically intriguing or spiritually repellent, morbidly seductive or comically absurd, Blood Thirst gives us all something to sink our teeth into.