Bloodlust -Signed and warmly inscribed Conversations With Real Vampires

Carol Page

ISBN 10: 0060163291 / ISBN 13: 9780060163297

Published by HarperCollins, NY, 1991

About this Item

HarperCollins Publishers, NY, 1991, 192 pgs. First/First in Very Good/Very Good condition with evidence of reading and light age toning as well as some shelfwear. Otherwise square and unclipped. The Author has Signed and warmly inscribed on ffep (please review photos for condition and signature/inscription. Shocking real life stories of people who drink and lust for blood. All books bubble wrapped and shipped promptly in a box. Red and black boards with red lettering.

Seller Inventory # 2019098

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Bloodlust -Signed and warmly inscribed Conversations With Real Vampires
• Publisher: HarperCollins, NY
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060163291
• ISBN 13: 9780060163297
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First/First.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Horror
  • Modern non-fiction

About this title

Synopsis

A diverse group of real-life vampires discusses their favorite pastime--drinking blood--candidly revealing the techniques they employ to acquire fresh victims and explaining why their "blood-lust" is so powerful

Reviews

A survey of honest-to-goodness human bloodsuckers that manages to buffer sensationalism with sympathy. Through historical research, anecdotes, and interviews, free- lance journalist Page (Cosmopolitan, Omni, etc.) celebrates ``the decade of the vampire'' and the impact of the vampire image on popular culture from cereal shapes, novels, movies, and fashions to rock music, pornography, and political cartoons. While admitting that the vampire mystique is ``about sex and power,'' she tries to debunk the myth by portraying her subjects as needy and lonely souls whose craving for blood or obsession with those who crave it are not much different from such other emotional maladies as manic- depression or eating disorders. Among her subjects: a gay vampire who ``drinks other people's blood to get to know and understand them better''; a vampire hunter who claims to be a distant grandson of Lord Byron; and a young man convicted of murdering a woman whom he perceived to be his blood-sucking grandmother. Without getting too mired in theories or details, Page also discusses African blood-drinking rituals, a London ``Dracula Society'' that stages a ``Hunt-A-Vampire Weekend,'' the influence of the 60's soap opera Dark Shadows, and a Fox-TV vampire special in which facts apparently were egregiously fudged. She also draws a hilarious comparison between Vlad Tepes--the infamous Romanian prince on whom Bram Stoker's Dracula is supposedly based--and Romania's toppled dictator Ceausescu. Avoiding the lurid gush of Norine Dresser's American Vampires (1989), Page entertains, informs, and even inspires the cause for ``Vampire's Rights'' without draining too much out of us. -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.