Vampire Cinema: The First One Hundred Years by Christopher Frayling (@christopherfrayling) This coffee table feast invites us to time travel from castles and graveyards to high-schools and shopping malls. The bloodline has spread from the silent nightmare of #Nosferatu to Hollywood’s #Dracula and progeny (1931-48); from Hammer’s Dracula and sequels (1958-74) to versions of Sheridan Le Fanu’s story Carmilla and other #lesbianvampires (1970-2020); from the best-selling novels Interview with the Vampire and Twilight to vampires who have shed their capes, hereditary titles and period trappings to become assorted smalltown oddballs, addicts, delinquents, psychopaths, rednecks, fashionistas, gay icons, comedians and even comic-book heroes (1975-2022). No longer confined to cobwebs and coffins, the #vampires of contemporary imaginations have evolved to seek kinship with misfits and lonely newcomers as we yearn them to walk among us. With each cultural era passing by, there is a vampire franchise which helps to define it; fear and desire distilled in every form. The book is dripping with stills, posters, artworks, press books—many of which have not seen the light of day for a very long time. “Scary, sexy and pretty fuc?ing cool.” @thedoublenegative A small number of signed copies are available from our website. Linkin.bio 👀☝️ #christopherfrayling #vampirecinema #movieposter #horrorcinema