Daughters of Darkness
Lesbian Vampire Stories
Pam Keesey
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From Library Journal
Although this collection is probably for a fairly specialized market, there are some excellent stories here–including works by Jewelle Gomez, Kathryn Forrest, and Robbi Sommers–which, as editor Keesey points out, are hard to find elsewhere. Before Dracula, much vampire lore in fact centered around female vampires, and Keesey is bringing to light some of that tradition. By combining the ideas of women as vampires and women as seductive lesbians, Keesey doubles the force of images that have historically crystallized society’s fear of powerful women. This book will be particularly at home in collections of feminist fiction, folklore, and popular culture; the explicit eroticism may limit its use in popular fiction collections.
– Marylaine Block, St. Ambrose Univ. , Davenport, Ia.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. –This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Booklist
In the fascinating, scholarly introduction to these 10 tales, editor Keesey examines the role of women, especially lesbians, in vampire lore. She traces her own interest to the 1970s–‘the golden age of lesbian vampire movies’–and pursues her quarry throughout literature, postulating that its origin might lie in traditions as old as the Bible. Discovering traditional characteristics of the female vampire, she concludes that the lesbian may be the skeleton-in-the-closet of vampire lore. Her choices for the anthology proper include LeFanu’s classic ‘Carmilla’ (1871) and nine much more contemporary stories, including sex-advice columnist Pat Califia’s ‘Vampire,’ set in contemporary leather and S&M bars; mystery writer Katherine V. Forrest’s ‘O Captain, My Captain,’ with its vampire of the future cruising the galaxies like the Flying Dutchman; and Jewelle Gomez’s ‘Louisiana: 1850’ from her Gilda Stories. The other choices are as varied and intriguing, and all are followed by a brief annotated filmography and unannotated bibliography. Marie Kuda
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Details
| ISBN | 1573440760 |
| Genre | Anthology – Fiction; Erotica; Speculative Fiction; Vampire |
| Copyright Date | 1993 |
| Publication Date | 31-Oct-98 |
| Publisher | Cleis Press |
| Editor | Pam Keesey |
| Format | Trade Paperback |
| No. of Pages | 250 |
| Language | English |
| Rating | NotRated |
| Editor | Pam Keesey |
| BookID | 2743 |
