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Lord Ruthven Award
The Lord Ruthven Award is an annual award presented by the Lord Ruthven Assembly, a group of academic scholars specialising in vampire literature and affiliated with the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (IAFA). The award is presented for the best fiction on vampires and the best academic work on the study of the vampire figure in culture and literature. The award is presented each March at the International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (ICFA) in Orlando. The award is named after Lord Ruthven, one of the first vampires in English literature. Lord Ruthven Award: Non-Fiction *1994: David J. Skal, ''The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror'' *1995: J. Gordon Melton, ''The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead'' *1996: Nina Auerbach, ''Our Vampires, Ourselves'' *1997: David J. Skal, ''V is for Vampire: An A to Z Guide to everything Undead'' *1998: Carol Margaret Davison & Paul Simpson-Housley, Eds., ''Bram Stoker's Dracula: Suckin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vampire Fiction
Vampire literature covers the spectrum of literary work concerned principally with the subject of vampires. The literary vampire first appeared in 18th-century poetry, before becoming one of the stock figures of gothic fiction with the publication of Polidori's ''The Vampyre'' (1819), which was inspired by the life and legend of Lord Byron. Later influential works include the penny dreadful ''Varney the Vampire'' (1847); Sheridan Le Fanu's tale of a lesbian vampire, ''Carmilla'' (1872), and the most well known: Bram Stoker's ''Dracula'' (1897). Some authors created a more "sympathetic vampire", with ''Varney'' being the first, and Anne Rice's 1976 novel ''Interview with the Vampire'' as a more recent example. History 18th century Vampire fiction is rooted in the "vampire craze" of the 1720s and 1730s, which culminated in the somewhat bizarre official exhumations of suspected vampires Petar Blagojevich and Arnold Paole in Serbia under the Habsburg monarchy. One of the first w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
