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What follows is a partial list of useful reference books on Bram Stoker, Dracula and vampires. The emphasis here is on works published since 1980. For a more comprehensive bibliography, see: Richard Dalby & William Hughes, Bram Stoker: A Bibliography (Desert Island Books, 2004); and Elizabeth Miller, ed. Bram Stoker’s Dracula: A Documentary Volume. Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 304 (Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 2004).
[This list will be updated as new material becomes available].
BOOKS
Auerbach, Nina. Our Vampires, Ourselves. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1995.
Barber, Paul. Vampires, Burial, and Death. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988.
Barsanti, Michael J., and Wendy Van Wyck Good. Bram Stoker’s Dracula: A Centennial Exhibition. Philadelphia: Rosenbach Museum & Library, 1997.
Belford, Barbara. Bram Stoker: A Biography of the Author of Dracula. New York: Knopf, 1996.
Bell, Michael. Food for the Dead: On the Trail of New England’s Vampires. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2001.
Bhalla, Alok. Politics of Atrocity and Lust: The Vampire Tale as a Nightmare History of England in the Nineteenth Century. New Delhi: Sterling, 1990.
Brennan, Matthew C. The Gothic Psyche: Disintegration and Growth in Nineteenth-Century English Literature. Columbia, SC: Camden House, 1997.
Cain, Jimmie E. Bram Stoker and Russophobia. Jefferson NC & London: McFarland, 2006.
Carter, Margaret (ed). Dracula: The Vampire and the Critics. Ann Arbor: UMI Press, 1988.
Davison, Carol M. (ed). Bram Stoker's Dracula: Sucking Through the Century. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1997.
Day, Peter (ed). Vampires: Myths of Enduring Evil. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2006.
Dijkstra, Bram. Idols of Perversity: Fantasies of Feminine Evil in Fin de Siècle Culture. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987.
Dresser, Norine. American Vampires. New York: Vintage Books, 1990.
Duda, Heather L. The Monster Hunter in Modern Popular Culture. Jefferson NC & London: McFarland, 2008.
Eighteen-Bisang, Robert and Elizabeth Miller. Bram Stoker’s Notes for Dracula: A Facsimile Edition. Jefferson NC & London: McFarland, 2008.
Dundes, Alan, ed. The Vampire: A Casebook. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1998.
Florescu, Radu and Raymond T. McNally. Dracula: Prince of Many Faces. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1989.
Frayling, Christopher. Vampyres: Lord Byron to Count Dracula. London: Faber and Faber, 1991.
Frost, Brian. The Monster with a Thousand Faces: Guises of the Vampire in Myth and Literature. Bowling Green: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1989.
Gelder, Ken. Reading the Vampire. London: Routledge, 1994.
Glover, David. Vampires, Mummies, and Liberals. Durham: Duke University Press, 1966.
Gordon, Joan and Veronica Hollinger, eds. Blood Read: The Vampire Metaphor in Contemporary Culture. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997.
Guiley, Rosemary Ellen. The Encyclopedia of Vampires, Werewolves, and Other Monsters. New York: Checkmark Books, 2004.
Holte, James Craig. Dracula in the Dark: The Dracula Film Adaptations. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1997.
Hopkins, Lisa. Bram Stoker: A Literary Life. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Hughes, William. Beyond Dracula: Bram Stoker’s Fiction in Its Cultural Context. New
York: St. Martin’s, 2000.
Hughes, William & Andrew Smith (eds). Bram Stoker: History, Psychoanalysis and the Gothic. London: Macmillan, 1998.
Keyworth, David. Troublesome Corpses: Vampires & Revenants from Antiquity to the Present. Southend-on-Sea, UK: Desert Island Books, 2007.
Kline, Salli J. The Degeneration of Women: Bram Stoker’s Dracula as Allegorical Criticism of the Fin de Siècle. Rheinbach-Merzbach: CMZ-Verlag, 1992.
Leatherdale, Clive. Dracula: The Novel and the Legend. 1985. Westcliff-on-Sea: Desert Island Books, 1993.
Leatherdale, Clive. The Origins of Dracula. London: Kimber, 1987.
Malchow, H.L. Gothic Image of Race in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996.
Marigny. Vampires: Restless Creatures of the Night. Trans Lory Frankel. New York: Abrams, 1994.
McClelland, Bruce A. Slayers and Their Vampires. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2006.
McDonald, Beth E. The Vampire as Numinous Experience. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2004.
Melton, J. Gordon. The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead. 1994. Revised Detroit: Invisible Ink, 1999.
Mighall, Robert. A Geography of Victorian Gothic Fiction: Mapping History’s Nightmares. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Miller, Elizabeth (ed). Bram Stoker’s Dracula: A Documentary Volume. Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol 304. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 2004.
Miller, Elizabeth. A Dracula Handbook. Xlibris, 2005.
Miller, Elizabeth. Dracula: Sense & Nonsense. Westcliff-on-Sea: Desert Island Books, 2000. Rev. 2004.
Miller, Elizabeth (ed). Dracula: The Shade and the Shadow. Westcliff-on-Sea: Desert Island Books, 1998.
Moretti, Franco. Signs Taken for Wonders. Trans. Susan Fischer, D. Forgacs and D. Miller. New York: Verso, 1988.
Murray, Paul. From the Shadow of Dracula: A Life of Bram Stoker. London: Jonathan Cape, 2004.
Noll, Richard. Vampires, Werewolves, and Demons: Twentieth Century Reports in the Psychiatric Literature. New York: Brunner/Mazel, 1992.
Perkowski, Jan L. The Darkling: A Treatise on Slavic Vampirism. Columbus: Slavica, 1989.
Pick, Daniel. Faces of Degeneration: A European Disorder, 1848-1918. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Ramsland, Katherine. Piercing the Darkness: Undercover with Vampires in America Today. New York: HarperPrism, 1998.
Ramsland, Katherine. The Science of Vampires. New York: Berkley, 2002.
Rickels, Laurence A. The Vampire Lectures. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota
Press, 1999.
Senf, Carol A. The Critical Response to Bram Stoker. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1993.
Senf, Carol A. Dracula: Between Tradition and Modernism. Twayne, 1998.
Senf, Carol A. Science and Social Science in Bram Stoker’s Fiction. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2002.
Senf, Carol A. The Vampire in Nineteenth-Century English Literature. Bowling Green: Popular Press, 1988.
Skal, David. Hollywood Gothic. New York: Norton, 1990. Revised 2004.
Smith, Andrew, ed. Dracula and the Critics. Sheffield: Pavic, 1996.
Starshine, Sylvia, ed. Dracula; or The Un-Dead by Bram Stoker. Nottingham: Pumpkin Books, 1997.
Stuart, Roxana. Stage Blood: Vampires of the 19th Century Stage. Bowling Green: Bowling Green State University Press, 1994.
Twitchell. The Living Dead: A Study of the Vampire in Romantic Literature. Durham: Duke University Press, 1981.
Treptow, Kurt. Vlad III Dracula. Centre for Romanian Studies, 2000.
Valente, Joseph. Dracula’s Crypt: Bram Stoker, Irishness and the Question of Blood.
University of Illinois Press, 2002.
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