Description

**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 Chambe* r (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.