The Monster with a Thousand Faces

by Frost

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Brian Frost chronicles the history of the vampire in myth and literature, providing a sumptuous repast for all devotees of the bizarre. In a wide-ranging survey, including plot summaries of hundreds of novels and short stories, the reader meets an amazing assortment of vampires from the pages of weird fiction, ranging from the 10,000-year-old femme fatale in Robert E. Howard's Conan the Conqueror to the malevolent fetus in Eddy C. Bertin's "Something Small, Something Hungry." Nostalgia buffs will enjoy a discussion of the vampire yarns in the pulp magazines of the interwar years, while fans of contemporary vampire fiction will also be sated.
  • ISBN13 9780879724597
  • Publish Date 15 June 1989
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher University of Wisconsin Press
  • Imprint Bowling Green University Popular Press,US
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 160
  • Language English