I should have expected this, but I think I was in denial.

[hermionesviolin]

The syllabus for the Vampire class I'm auditing this semester is up:

Required Texts (available at the Harvard Coop later in the summer):

THREE VAMPIRE TALES, ed. Anne Williams (Wadsworth, Cengage Learning): ISBN-13: 978-0-618-08490-6. This volume includes John Polidori’s The Vampyre, Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla, and Bram Stoker’s Dracula, with other helpful resources. ***Although other editions of these works exist, you must use this edition or you will be at a disadvantage.***

Rachel Caine, THE MORGANVILLE VAMPIRES (New American Library): ISBN 978-0-451- 23054-6. This volume contains the first two novels in the series, Glass Houses and The Dead Girls’ Dance. Only Glass Houses will be assigned.

Seth Grahame-Smith, ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER (Grand Central Publ./Hachette): ISBN 978-0-446-56308-6

Laurell K. Hamilton, GUILTY PLEASURES (Jove/Penguin): ISBN 978-0-515-13449-0

Charlaine Harris, DEAD UNTIL DARK (Ace/Penguin): ISBN 978-0-441-01699-0

Kim Harrison, DEAD WITCH WALKING (Eos/Harper Collins): ISBN 978-0-06-156719-3

Tom Holland, LORD OF THE DEAD (Pocket Books): ISBN 0-671-53425-4

Elizabeth Kostova, THE HISTORIAN (Time Warner Books): ISBN 0-7515-3728-4

John Ajvide Lindqvist, LET THE RIGHT ONE IN (Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Griffin): ISBN-13: 978-0-312-35529-6

Stephenie Meyer, TWILIGHT (Little Brown): ISBN-13: 978-0316038379

Anne Rice, INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE (Ballantine Books): ISBN 0-345-40964-7

Comments

[polymexina.livejournal.com]

Huh. No feminist takes on vampires? My bored face is bored.

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

My sense is that the gist of the class is, "Vampires: why so (enduringly) popular?"

Which, obviously, doesn't preclude feminist takes (and admittedly this portion of the syllabus doesn't include the optional critical essays and films).

Which works would you have added?

[polymexina.livejournal.com]

The Gilda Stories for sure.

A novel whose title I'm blanking on but was writting in 81 or 82 that's narrated by an unrepentant vampiress who manages a dance studio.

Mina by Marie Kiraly

The Mind of My Mind series by Octavia Butler (psychic vampire feeds on black people in the US and breeds them to make their psyches extra delicious)

Fledgling (also by Octavia Butler)

When True Night Falls

The Madness Season

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

I give myself brownie points that I've read Mina and Fledgling :)

The psychic vampire thing is interesting -- I have Butler's Patternist series on my To Read list, but hadn't thought of them as vampire books.

My google-fu is failing me for finding the dance studio book :(

[polymexina.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I JUUUUUST returned it to the library, too, so it's not obvious. It's a dang-gone classic, though.

It's something like I, Vampyr? This is going to drive me crazy.

[polymexina.livejournal.com]

Daughters of Darkness focuses on lesbian vampires.

[hermionesviolin.livejournal.com]

Heh, as I was going through my "vampires" tag on my GoodReads earlier today (adding the books you'd listed), I was reminded that I actually have a "lesbian vampires" tag (who knew?).

[polymexina.livejournal.com]

I'm also not seeing any authors of color -- like, where's LA Banks? She's published over 10 books in her vampire huntress series.

[polymexina.livejournal.com]

If we're thinking POC, then the Felix Gomez investigator series -- featuring a Latino vet with some PTSD who was turned while deployed to Iraq.

I should have expected this, but I think I was in denial.

[athene.livejournal.com]

The Gilda Stories (I'm pretty sure that's the name of the
book).