Suburban Vampire

Author : Franklin Posner
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781545551448
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Suburban Vampire written by Franklin Posner and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-21 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Office worker and ordinary guy Scott Campbell is probably the last person you'd suspect of being a vampire. His new supernatural enemies may underestimate him, but this suburban vampire is much stronger than anyone thinks. The trouble begins when another driver runs Scott off the road. Scott survives the car crash, but the other motorist immediately attacks him in the wreckage. The assault changes Scott forever. He suddenly has heightened senses, supernatural strength, and an insatiable hunger. The truth is undeniable: Scott is a vampire. Soon he's immersed in the arcane, highly ritualized, and surprisingly bureaucratic world of the supernatural. After Scott foils a mass shooting at a local mall, he's ordered to stand trial by the House, the ruling authority among vampires. The group plans to condemn him to death for being an unregistered vampire who has potentially exposed vampire kind to an unsuspecting public. Scott's heroism also catches the attention of Detective Grace Montoya, who's obsessed with uncovering his secret and exposing him to the world! Will Scott's new superpowers help him win his trial and dodge Montoya's investigation? He'll have to fight against a system that's been ingrained in vampire society for centuries, but he may find supernatural allies willing to join in the struggle.

Author : Franklin Posner
Publisher : Suburban Vampire
ISBN 13 : 9781543935363
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Suburban Vampire Ragnarok written by Franklin Posner and published by Suburban Vampire. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When cubicle worker and ordinary guy Scott Campbell became a vampire, he knew he'd be in for a few challenges. But he never imagined that the end of the world would be one of them.

Author : Laura Herbertson
Publisher : Eternal Press
ISBN 13 : 1926640683
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Suburban Demon written by Laura Herbertson and published by Eternal Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Grady Hendrix
Publisher : Quirk Books
ISBN 13 : 168369144X
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires written by Grady Hendrix and published by Quirk Books. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This funny and fresh take on a classic tale manages to comment on gender roles, racial disparities, and white privilege all while creeping me all the way out. So good.”—Zakiya Dalila Harris, author of The Other Black Girl Steel Magnolias meets Dracula in this New York Times best-selling horror novel about a women's book club that must do battle with a mysterious newcomer to their small Southern town. Bonus features: • Reading group guide for book clubs • Hand-drawn map of Mt. Pleasant • Annotated true-crime reading list by Grady Hendrix • And more! Patricia Campbell’s life has never felt smaller. Her husband is a workaholic, her teenage kids have their own lives, her senile mother-in-law needs constant care, and she’s always a step behind on her endless to-do list. The only thing keeping her sane is her book club, a close-knit group of Charleston women united by their love of true crime. At these meetings they’re as likely to talk about the Manson family as they are about their own families. One evening after book club, Patricia is viciously attacked by an elderly neighbor, bringing the neighbor's handsome nephew, James Harris, into her life. James is well traveled and well read, and he makes Patricia feel things she hasn’t felt in years. But when children on the other side of town go missing, their deaths written off by local police, Patricia has reason to believe James Harris is more of a Bundy than a Brad Pitt. The real problem? James is a monster of a different kind—and Patricia has already invited him in. Little by little, James will insinuate himself into Patricia’s life and try to take everything she took for granted—including the book club—but she won’t surrender without a fight in this blood-soaked tale of neighborly kindness gone wrong.

Author : B. Murphy
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230244750
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Suburban Gothic in American Popular Culture written by B. Murphy and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-08-21 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first sustained examination of the depiction of American suburbia in gothic and horror films, television and literature from 1948 to the present day. Beginning with Shirley Jackson's The Road Through the Wall , Murphy discusses representative texts from each decade, including I Am Legend , Bewitched , Halloween and Desperate Housewives .

Author : Sorcha Ní Fhlainn
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137583770
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postmodern Vampires written by Sorcha Ní Fhlainn and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-04-25 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postmodern Vampires: Film, Fiction, and Popular Culture is the first major study to focus on American cultural history from the vampire’s point of view. Beginning in 1968, Ní Fhlainn argues that vampires move from the margins to the centre of popular culture as representatives of the anxieties and aspirations of their age. Mapping their literary and screen evolution on to the American Presidency, from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump, this essential critical study chronicles the vampire’s blood-ties to distinct socio-political movements and cultural decades in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Through case studies of key texts, including Interview with the Vampire, The Lost Boys, Blade, Twilight, Let Me In, True Blood and numerous adaptations of Dracula, this book reveals how vampires continue to be exemplary barometers of political and historical change in the American imagination. It is essential reading for scholars and students in Gothic and Horror Studies, Film Studies, and American Studies, and for anyone interested in the articulate undead.

Author : Peter Day
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9042016698
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Vampires written by Peter Day and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2006 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary Material --Introduction /Peter Day --Legend of the Vampire --Getting to know the Un-dead: Bram Stoker, Vampires and Dracula /Elizabeth Miller --"One for Ever": Desire, Subjectivity and the Threat of the Abject in Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla /Hyun-Jung Lee --Sex, Death, and Ecstacy: The Art of Transgression /Lois Drawmer --The Name of the Vampire: Some Reflections on Current Linguistic Theories on the Etymology of the Word Vampire /Peter Mario Kreuter --The Discourse of the Vampire in First World War Writing /Terry Phillips --"Dead Man Walking": The Historical Context of Vampire Beliefs /Darren Oldridge --Vampire Dogs and Marsupial Hyenas: Fear, Myth, and the Tasmanian Tiger's Extinction /Phil Bagust --Vampires for the Modern Mind --Vampire Subcultures /Meg Barker --Embracing the Metropolis: Urban Vampires in American Cinema of the 1980s and 90s /Stacey Abbott --Piercing the Corporate Veil - With a Stake? Vampire Imagery and the Law /Sharon Sutherland --The Vampire and the Cyborg Embrace: Affect Beyond Fantasy in Virtual Materialism /James Tobias --Looking in the Mirror: Vampires, the Symbolic, and the Thing /Fiona Peters --"Death to Vampires!": The Vampire Body and the Meaning of Mutilation /Elizabeth McCarthy --The Un-dead: To be Feared or/and Pitied /Nursel Icoz --"You're Whining Again Louis": Anne Rice's Vampires as Indices of the Depressive Self /Pete Remington.

Author : Jago Dodson
Publisher : UNSW Press
ISBN 13 : 1921410329
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shocking the Suburbs written by Jago Dodson and published by UNSW Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Petrol prices have risen to historic highs, disrupting western economies and stretching household budgets. Australia’s overwhelming reliance on the private motor car for urban mobility makes our cities among the most oil-dependent in the world, and to date there has been little analysis of the potential social, economic and political impacts of rising fuel costs on our cities. Shocking the Suburbs considers current urban transport problems, and identifies how new planning strategies and broader public policy can address oil vulnerability.

Author : Bob Janis
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595223168
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Displicit written by Bob Janis and published by iUniverse. This book was released on with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stacey Abbott
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 029278449X
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Celluloid Vampires written by Stacey Abbott and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2009-03-06 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1896, French magician and filmmaker George Méliès brought forth the first celluloid vampire in his film Le manoir du diable. The vampire continues to be one of film's most popular gothic monsters and in fact, today more people become acquainted with the vampire through film than through literature, such as Bram Stoker's classic Dracula. How has this long legacy of celluloid vampires affected our understanding of vampire mythology? And how has the vampire morphed from its folkloric and literary origins? In this entertaining and absorbing work, Stacey Abbott challenges the conventional interpretation of vampire mythology and argues that the medium of film has completely reinvented the vampire archetype. Rather than representing the primitive and folkloric, the vampire has come to embody the very experience of modernity. No longer in a cape and coffin, today's vampire resides in major cities, listens to punk music, embraces technology, and adapts to any situation. Sometimes she's even female. With case studies of vampire classics such as Nosferatu, Martin, Blade, and Habit, the author traces the evolution of the American vampire film, arguing that vampires are more than just blood-drinking monsters; they reflect the cultural and social climate of the societies that produce them, especially during times of intense change and modernization. Abbott also explores how independent filmmaking techniques, special effects makeup, and the stunning and ultramodern computer-generated effects of recent films have affected the representation of the vampire in film.