The Monster with a Thousand Faces Hardback
by Frost
Hardback
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Brian Frost chronicles the history of the vampire in myth and literature, providing a sumptuous repast for all devotees of the bizarre.
In a wide-ranging survey, including plot summaries of hundreds of novels and short stories, the reader meets an amazing assortment of vampires from the pages of weird fiction, ranging from the 10,000-year-old femme fatale in Robert E.
Howard's Conan the Conqueror to the malevolent fetus in Eddy C.
Bertin's "Something Small, Something Hungry." Nostalgia buffs will enjoy a discussion of the vampire yarns in the pulp magazines of the interwar years, while fans of contemporary vampire fiction will also be sated.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:160 pages
- Publisher:University of Wisconsin Press
- Publication Date:31/12/1989
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- ISBN:9780879724597
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Item not Available
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:160 pages
- Publisher:University of Wisconsin Press
- Publication Date:31/12/1989
- Category:
- ISBN:9780879724597