Mythical creatures: Vampires, werewolves and other shapeshifters Books
O'Brien Press Ltd Have You Seen the Dublin Vampire?
Book SynopsisA funny, warm picture book set throughout Dublin, home to Dracula's creator, Bram Stoker.
£13.29
O'Brien Press Ltd A Spooktacular Place to Be
Book SynopsisIn his moon-shaped park filled with silver moonlight, The Dublin Vampire wakes to the same familiar sight. ‘I’ve spent so many years in this creepy old tree, Is there a more spooktacular place to be?’ He agrees with his bat that it’s time to explore ‘Let’s go on an all-Ireland ghost bus tour!’ A spooky bus tour around Ireland, with our favourite Dublin Vampire! He travels to well-known places all over the country, including St. Michan's church (where the mummies sleep!), Kilkenny Castle, the Hill of Tara (where the fairies dance and spraoi), and visits the giants at the causeway. But, when his travels are done, he decides that home is the most spooktacular place to be! Trade Reviewthe Dublin Vampire is back and this time he’s looking for somewhere he can feel more ‘spooktacular’. He travels around Ireland, from Skellig Michael to Newgrange, looking for spooky places, but in the end finds there’s no place like home. The short rhyming story is perfect for very young children and the illustrations are delightful. Don’t miss the end papers with their tiny smiling pumpkins and winking ghosts * Ireland's Independent *Our favourite Dublin Vampire returns in this fabulously illustrated picturebook. The inky scenes perfectly capture the Dublin Vampire’s night-time adventures as he and his friends decide it is time to venture outside of Dublin. Boarding a ghost bus, they head off across the country, taking in well-known spooky Irish landmarks like Loftus Hall and the Hill of Tara. The rhyming text will carry young readers all over Ireland with the gentle message that perhaps there is no place like home. A fantastic seasonal read! * CBI Deliver the Joy of Reading *stylish illustrations * Irish Independent *Told in gentle rhyme, Woods guides the Dublin vampire and the reader across the country. Introducing one haunted location after the other, including their spooky inhabitants. She manages that fine balance of making her spreads spooky but colourful, fun and friendly. Every location has a character of its own. Each spread is filled with activity and background characters to keep kids engaged again and again as they discover more. Overall, a lovely tour book of Ireland with the realisation that while it is lovely to visit strange new places, there is nothing as nice as coming home. Perfect for Halloween -- childrensbooksireland.ie
£13.29
Berghahn Books The Vampire: Origins of a European Myth
Book Synopsis Even before Bram Stoker immortalized Transylvania as the homeland of his fictional Count Dracula, the figure of the vampire was inextricably tied to Eastern Europe in the popular imagination. Drawing on a wealth of previously neglected sources, this book offers a fascinating account of how vampires—whose various incarnations originally emerged from folk traditions from all over the world—became so strongly identified with Eastern Europe. It demonstrates that the modern conception of the vampire was born in the crucible of the Enlightenment, embodying a mysterious, Eastern otherness that stood opposed to Western rationality. From the Prologue: From Original Sin to Eternal Life For a broad contemporary public, the vampire has become a star, a media sensation from Hollywood. Bestselling authors such as Bram Stoker, Anne Rice and Stephenie Meyer continue to fire the imaginations of young and old alike, and bloodsuckers have achieved immortality through films like Dracula, Interview with a Vampireand Twilight. It is no wonder that, in the teenage bedrooms of our globalized world, vampires even steal the show from Harry Potter. They have long since been assigned individual personalities and treated with sympathy. They may possess superhuman powers, but they are also burdened by their immortality and have to learn to come to terms with their craving for blood. Whereas the Southeast European vampire, discovered in the 1730s, underwent an Americanization and domestication in the media landscape of the twentieth century, the creole zombies that first became known through the cheap novels and horror films of the 1920s still continue to serve as brainless horror figures. Do bloodsuckers really exist and should we really be afraid of the dead? These are the questions that I seek to tackle, following the wishes of my daughter, who was ten when I started this project.Trade Review “Thomas M. Bohn’s book on the ‘historical’ vampire is the rare epitome of a knowledgeable, critical and non-speculative monograph on the subject matter; it is not popular non-fiction, but still a very readable piece of academic writing… a splendid study.” • Journal of Vampire Studies “One of the major contributions of Bohn’s study is his meticulous historiography of vampirism in eastern Europe…Weaving together historical analysis with the process of Christianization, The Vampire: Origins of a European Myth offers an illuminating contribution to scholarship on the vampire figure.” • Slavic Review “Bohn's broad and diligently compiled study ranges from the legends of medieval Iceland, through early modern Silesia and Poland, and up to the modern-day Balkans… The author has tackled an important issue of pan-European relevance.” • SehepunkteTable of Contents List of Illustrations Prologue: From Original Sin to Eternal Life Introduction: The Vampire as an Imperial Category Chapter 1. Vampirism in the West Chapter 2. Vampirism in the East Chapter 3. Vampirism in the Headlines Chapter 4. Vampirism in Popular Belief Chapter 5. Vampirism in the Modern Period Conclusion: The Vampire as Local Scapegoat Bibliography Index
£89.10
Cornerstone My Roommate is a Vampire: The hilarious new
Book SynopsisTwo strangers. One apartment.Will it be love at first . . . bite?Cassie Greenberg needs a new place to live, and fast. When she finds an affordable apartment in a beautiful neighbourhood, she knows there must be a catch.Of course, her new roommate Frederick J. Fitzwilliam is far from normal. He sleeps all day, is out at night on business, and talks like he walked out of a regency romance novel.He is also leaves Cassie heart-melting notes around the apartment, always asks about her day, and doesn't look half bad shirtless on the rare occasions they're both home and awake.There's no denying there's a spark between them - but there's also a secret. . .With true love at stake, will Frederick come clean?AUTHORS ARE OBSESSED WITH MY ROOMMATE IS A VAMPIRE:'Bloody delightful!' Ashley Poston, New York Times bestselling author of The Dead Romantics'Wonderfully weird and sexy as hell ' Alicia Thompson'A kooky, sparkly piece of happiness' India Holton'This one is good to the last drop' Publishers Weekly'Whimsical, magical, and hilarious' Sarah Hawley'Will leave you laughing so loud you could wake the undead' Elizabeth Davis'Wildly entertaining, delightfully steamy, laugh-out-loud hilarious, wrenchingly romantic' Thea Guanzon'A fresh, charming romp full of heart and some of the best kissing scenes I've ever read' Isabel Cañas
£8.54
Snowbooks Ltd Dracula: Curse of the Vampire
Book Synopsis1897In the wolf-haunted Carpathian Mountains, a young solicitor, Jonathan Harker, travels to an isolated castle to assist a mysterious Count with purchasing a number of properties in England. But what he witnesses there drives him to the edge of madnessMeanwhile, in Whitby, Harker's fiancée, Mina Murray, visits her dear friend Lucy Westenra. But during her stay, Lucy is attacked and becomes seriously illIn London, Lucy's suitor and physician, Dr John Seward, becomes preoccupied with the case of a certain Mr Renfield, an inmate at his lunatic asylum, who seeks to collect lives for his master, having not long returned from a trip to TransylvaniaAnd so the pieces for the game are set. For they are all pawns in a plan devised centuries ago by the Voivod of Wallachia, Vlad Tepes, a cruel tyrant whom history remembers as the Son of the Devil', his bloodthirsty deeds having earned him another nameDracula. ****Dracula Curse of the Vampire is an interactive gothic horror novel, in which YOU decide which route to take, which perils to risk, and which of the terrifying creatures you will meet along the way to fight. Play as Jonathan Harker, Mina Murray and Dr John Seward or even Count Dracula himself. But be warned whether you succeed in your quest or succumb to the curse of the vampire will be down to the choices YOU make.But do not tarry, for the dead travel fast.
£21.25
