By Nina Auerbach
"[Auerbach] has obvious extra Hammer videos than I (or the monsters) have had steaming scorching diners, encountered extra bloodsuckers than you may shake a stick at, even a couple of crossed sticks, resembling may deter a truly refined ogre, a hick from the Moldavian boonies....Auerbach has dissected and deconstructed them with the gentle ruthlessness of a hungry chef, with cogency and wit."—Eric Korn, Times Literary Supplement
"This seductive paintings deals profound insights into some of the pressing matters of our time and forces us to confront the intense meanings that we make investments, and search, in even the shadiest manifestations of the eroticism of death."—Wendy Doniger, The Nation
"A full of life, witty examine the undead as cultural icons."—Kirkus Review
"In case someone should still imagine this booklet is in simple terms an uneventful lit-crit exposition...Auerbach units concerns immediately in her first actual paragraph. 'What vampires are in any given generation,' she writes, 'is part of what i'm and what my occasions became. This booklet is a heritage of Anglo-American tradition via its mutating vampires.'...Her publication relatively takes off."—Maureen Duffy, New York instances ebook Review
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