Vampires

“Through the analysis of Sheridan le Fanu's novella Carmilla (1872) and Bram Stoker's novel Dracula, (1897), Green points to the ways in which the figure of the vampire becomes a terrain of confused and uncertain temporalities, where the continuity of the past into the present produces unexpected constraints and raises the question of consent, simultaneously bringing the vampiric body liberation from the tyranny of time.”

“Grappling with the representations of puberty and adolescent body as abject spaces-in-between and intertwining the figures of the innocent and the evil child, these chapters problematise the ideas of liminality, age of consent, (im)maturity, child's agency and child abuse.”

“Through the figures of lesbian vampress and her human romantic interest, the author examines the promises of female empowerment and agency, transformations of class and gender relations, release from the bonds of patriarchy and a consequent quest for women's liberated identity.”

“The reason good women like me and flock to my pictures is that there is a little bit of vampire instinct in every woman.”

“When AIDS was at its most brutal, frightening, my-God-what-are-we-going-to-do era, that was when vampire stories and stories about blood and trust swept the literary world.”

“So again Coth parted with his son in anger, and Jurgen returned again toward Barathum; and, whether or not it was a coincidence, Jurgen met precisely the vampire of whom he had inveigled his father into thinking. She was the most seductively beautiful creature that it would be possible for Jurgen's father or any other man to imagine: and her clothes were orange-coloured, for a reason sufficiently well known in Hell, and were embroidered everywhere with green fig-leaves.”

“You must understand that it is little rest a vampire gets on earth, with so many fine young fellows like yourself going about everywhere eager to be destroyed.”

“She [Susan] is very lovely, Mr. Mears — very toothsome if I may be permitted a small bon mot.”

“The world is coming down around our ears and you're sticking at a few vampires.”