Blood Thirst: 100 Years of Vampire Fiction – ed. Leonard Wolf Free Audiobook

Written by ed. Leonard Wolf
Read by Jill Fox
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Blood Thirst: 100 Years of Vampire Fiction
Edited by Leonard Wolf

Encode: mp3 – 64 kbps, Mono, 44.1 kHz
Total # of Tracks: 36
Total Play time: 21:07:54

Anthology #286
Enjoy

Hellblazer1138

From Goodreads

In the past hundred years, since the publication of Bram Stoker’s infamous book, no literary figure has enjoyed a more horrific resiliency than Count Dracula. In film, television, novels, and short stories, he keeps coming back to life, fed by the vital imaginative energies of a world-wide audience that cannot seem to resist his abominable charms. Aristocratic and urbane, deeply erotic and profoundly evil, Dracula’s bloodsucking savagery has cast a mesmerizing fascination not only over his victims but over his readers as well. And, as Leonard Wolf suggests, “Vampire fiction…exerts an amazing pull on readers for a reason that we may find disturbing. The blood exchange—the taking of blood by the vampire from his or her victim is, all by itself, felt to be a singularly symbolic event. Symbolic and attractive!” Now, in Blood Thirst; One Hundred Years of Vampire Fiction, Leonard Wolf brings together thirty tales in which vampires of all varieties make their ghastly presence felt;male and female, human and non-human, humorous and heroic;all of them kin to the dreadful bat. From Lafcadio Hearn, Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman, Edith Wharton, August Derleth, and Ray Bradbury to such contemporary masters as Anne Rice, Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, John Cheever, and Woody Allen, and in settings as diverse as rural New England and outer space, this collection offers readers a dazzling compendium of vampire stories. Wolf organizes the collection into six categories;The Classic Adventure Tale, The Psychic Vampire, The Science Fiction Vampire, The Non-Human Vampire, The Comic Vampire, and The Heroic Vampire;which allows readers to see the many guises Dracula’s descendants have assumed and the many ways they can be interpreted. In his penetrating introduction, Wolf argues that such an arrangement enables us to see the evolution of the vampire from an unmitigated evil to a creature we are more likely to identify with. “In a century in which God and Satan have become increasingly irrelevant in the popular arts, there has been an accompanying secularization of the vampire idea. And, as the stories in Blood Thirst will show, sympathy for the vampire has grown as we have become increasingly interested in the workings of the mind.” Indeed, the vampire’s ability to change over time, to draw into itself such a richness of symbolic meanings, to conjure itself into so many diabolical shapes, may account for the enduring appeal of the literature written about it.
Here, then, is a definitive collection for aficionados and novices alike, and whether readers find the vampires who inhabit these pages sympathetic or horrific, psychologically intriguing or spiritually repellent, morbidly seductive or comically absurd,Blood Thirst gives us all something to sink our teeth into.

Stories in this collection:

01) Introduction by Leonard Wolf
—I: The Classic Adventure Tale—
02) The Story of Chûgorô by Lafcadio Hearn
03) Count Magnus by M. R. James
04) For the Blood Is the Life by F. Marion Crawford
05) The Drifting Snow by August Derleth
06) ‘Salem’s Lot (excerpt) by Stephen King
—II: The Psychological Vampire—
07) Luella Miller by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
08) The Transfer by Algernon Blackwood
09) The Girl with the Hungry Eyes by Fritz Leiber
10) Torch Song by John Cheever
11) Bellefleur (excerpt) by Joyce Carol Oates
—III: The Science Fiction Vampire—
12) Shambleau by C. L. Moore
13) The Hunger (excerpt) by Whitley Strieber
14) I Am Legend (excerpt) by Richard Matheson
15) Vanishing Breed by Leslie Roy Carter
16) Unicorn Tapestry by Suzy McKee Charnas
17) A Child of Darkness by Susan Casper
—IV: The Non-Human Vampire—
18) The Spider by Hanns Heinz Ewers
19) Negotium Perambulans by E. F. Benson
20) The Stainless Steel Leech by Roger Zelazny
21) Bite-Me-Not or, Fleur de Feu by Tanith Lee
—V: The Comic Vampire—
22) Blood by Fredric Brown
23) Blood Brother by Charles Beaumont
24) Count Dracula by Woody Allen
—VI: The Heroic Vampire—
25) Hôtel Transylvania (excerpt) by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
26) The Master of Rampling Gate by Anne Rice
27) Good Kids by Edward Bryant
28) Exposure by Laura Anne Gilman