Margot Adler
Kindle Single
June 2013
NPR Correspondent and author Margot Adler read over 260 vampire novels in the two years following her husband's death- from the earliest to the most recent, both adult and young adult, along with scholarly works on the genre and histories. Now I have read my share of vampire novels, even though never Bram Stoker's Dracula in it's entirety. I have often wondered why the genre keeps so many people enthralled. Vampire stories and novels wax and wane in popularity but since the publication of Anne Rice's Interview with the Vampire have exploded- never dying out completely just like the vampires themselves.
OUT FOR BLOOD is a wide ranging and thought-provoking meditation on the nature of life and death, power, politics, identity, sexuality, religious belief and even ecology. It is well worth reading and I'm sure I will reread it. According to Ms Adler, the vampire novel reflects the anxieties of the age in which it is produced and she presents a very convincing case. OUT FOR BLOOD is only available as a Kindle Single.
RATING- 4 Stakes
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