So in learning about vampires, I wanted to include characteristics from stories we've read that include vampires. To make sure I include everything, what all stories have vampires as people in them?
Thanks for the help. I'm going to compare and contrast vampires throughout the stories.
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I think I'm going to throw in Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire and for kicks Twilight. I just want to see how vampires compare across time. From Luella Miller to present day vampires, each author has taken some liberties of redefining the "vampire" and I'm curious as to see what are some traits that are consistent and those that commonly vary.
ReplyDeleteYou could always discuss the vampire/zombie/experiment gone horribly wrong creatures from I Am Legend. I'm still not entirely sure what those things should be classified as but they were not huge fans of sunlight so I say vampires. Those things were pretty much just a melting pot of characteristics from different sci-fi creatures so that would be a neat way to show how vampires have had their traits mixed in to create an entirely new lifeform in some media.
ReplyDeleteIn Richard Matheson's original novel I Am Legend, from which the various (inferior) movies are derived, the creatures are much more obviously and explicitly vampires.
ReplyDeleteFrom our syllabus thus far, "Luella Miller," "For the Blood Is the Life," "The Cloak" and The Graveyard Book all come to mind. Also in the Straub volumes are Frank Norris' "Grettir at Thorhall-stead" and John Cheever's "Torch Song," the latter of which can be read as a 20th-century big-city update of "Luella Miller." You have so many vampires at your disposal, Deirdra, that you probably should select only three or four to focus on!