title: Metamorphoses of the Vampire in Literature and Film: Cultural Transformations in Europe, 1732-1933 (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)
author:  Erik Butler 
description: (S)ucceeds in bringing a wealth of new voices from French and German scholarship to a field mostly dominated by English-language research. . . . (B)rings together a wealth of exciting literary, biographical, and filmic material . . . . (S)cholars and students interested in the monster will no doubt enjoy reading this book, and its individual chapters on the likes of Dracula and Nosferatu are a highly recommended read for courses on the subject. MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW (C)overs a lot of ground. . . . (E)specially informative for classroom use. MONATSHEFTE Butler brings to the feast . . . a rare cross-cultural perspective. . . . He also, and very convincingly, calls attention to the instability of genre that haunts vampire narratives . . . . Not merely a contribution to the cultural explication of the vampire, (this book) also touches on . . . broader . . . social transformations of both eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Europe . . . with elegance and intelligence. VICTORIAN STUDIES Butler's analyses of the development of vampire literature in the European tradition - most notably in France and Germany - are the most distinctive. . . A valuable contribution. CHOICE Butler's study shows conclusively that the term "vampire" represents a construct that has been exposed over the centuries to semantic and medial processes of change while mirroring and intensifying them in a cultural sense. . . . (T)he work (also) shows that vampires as a popular export of the Hollywood film industry are returning above all to the place from which they emerged in the eighteenth century to conquer the world: to Europe. LITERATURKRITIK.DE Butler, one of the most promising American comparatists of the last generation, has written an extremely enjoyable book. . . . (He) uses the tools of history and geography to read the figure of the vampire. His study might also be called: "The Vampire: A Political History." ILSOLE24ORE.COM Provides interesting analyses of the . . . discourses shaping the vampire, and uncovers fascinating cross currents. GERMAN QUARTERLY
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  Satanic, VersusMercedes Lackey
  
  "Mrs. Peel,” intoned a suave, urbane tenor voice from the hotel doorway behind
  Di Tregarde, “we're needed."
  
  The accent was faintly French rather than English, but the inflection was
  dead-on.
  
  Di didn't bother to look in the mirror, although she knew there would be a
  reflection there. Andre LeBrel might be a two-hundred-year-old vamp