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IN ADDITION TO THE COMPREHENSIVE SOURCES GIVEN IN THE CHAPTER notes, following are books, articles, and essays that were particularly helpful in researching Hollywood Gothic, as well as more recent works recommended for further reading and study.
In particular, I must enthusiatically endorse work of Dr. Elizabeth M. Miller, especially her Dracula: Sense and Nonsense, as indispensable for anyone writing or reporting on all things Draculesque. Clive Leatherdale’s Dracula Unearthed is the last word in annotated editions of Stoker’s novel, and his book Dracula: The Novel and the Legend remains the single best onevolume overview I have ever read. Nina Auerbach’s Our Vampires, Ourselves is the most lucid cultural analysis of the vampire mystique in the twentieth century one is likely to encounter, with major attention given to Dracula in his many incarnations. The pastiche Dracula novels of Kim Newman and Fred Saberhagen should be required reading for Dracula students, not only for their sheer entertainment value, but also for their surprising illumination of Stoker’s multilayered subtexts.
Books
Auerbach, Nina. Ellen Terry: Player in Her Time (New York: W W Norton & Company, 1987).
————. Our Vampires, Ourselves (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995).
————. Woman and the Demon: The Life of a Victorian Myth (Cambridge, Mass., and London: Harvard University Press, 1982).
Beckson, Karl. London in the 1890s: A Cultural History (New York and London: W. W. Norton & Company, 1992).
Belford, Barbara. Bram Stoker: A Biography of the Author of Dracula (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997).
Bouvier, M., and J.-L. Leutrat. Nosferatu (Paris: Cahiers du Cinema / Gallimard, 1981).
Cremer, Robert. Lugosi: The Man Behind the Cape (Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1976).
Dardis, Tom. Firebrand: The Life of Horace Liveright (New York: Random House, 1995).
Dello Stritto, Frank, and Andi Brooks. Vampire over London: Bela Lugosi in Britain (Los Angeles and Houston: Cult Movies Press, 2001).
Dijkstra, Bram. Idols of Perversity: Fantasies of Feminine Evil in Fin-de-Siècle Culture (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986).
Du Maurier, George. Trilby (London: Osgood Mcllvaine and Company, 1894).
Dworkin, Andrea. Intercourse (New York: The Free Press, 1987).
Farson, Daniel. The Man who Wrote Dracula (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1975).
Frayling, Christopher. Vampyres: Lord Byron to Count Dracula (London: Faber and Faber, 1991).
Glover, David. Vampires, Mummies, and Liberals: Bram Stoker and the Politics of Popular Fiction (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1996).
Gorman, Herbert. The Incredible Marquis: Alexandre Dumas (New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1929).
Holte, James Craig., ed. The Fantastic Vampire: Studies in the Children of the Night (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2002).
Jones, Ernest. On the Nightmare (1932 reprint, New York: Liveright, 1951).
Leatherdale, Clive. Dracula Unearthed (Westcliff-on-Sea, U.K.: Desert Island Books, 1997).
————. Dracula: The Novel and the Legend (Westcliff-on-Sea, U.K.: Desert Island Books, 1998).
————. The Origins of Dracula (London: William Kimber, 1987).
Lennig, Arthur. The Immortal Count: The Life and Films of Bela Lugosi (Lexington, Ky.: University of Kentucky Press, 2003).
Ludlam, Harry. A Biography of Dracula: The Life Story of Bram Stoker (London: W. Foulsham & Co., 1962).
————. My Quest for Bram Stoker (Chicago: Adams Press, 2000).
Macdonald, D. L., and Kathleen Scherf, eds. The Vampyre and Ernestus Berchtold; or, The Modern Prometheus: Collected Fiction of John Polidori (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994).
————. The Vampyre and Ernest Berchtold; or the Modern Oedipus: Collected Fiction of John William Polidori (Toronto/Buffalo/London: University of Toronto Press, 1994).
McNally, Raymond, and Radu Florescu. Dracula: Prince of Many Faces (Boston: Back Bay Books, 1989).
————. The Essential Dracula (New York: Mayflower Books, 1979).
————. In Search of Dracula (Greenwich, Conn.: The New York Graphic Society, 1972).
Madison, Bob, ed. Dracula: The First Hundred Years (Baltimore: Midnight Marquee Press, 1997).
Mank, Gregory. Karloff and Lugosi (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, 1990).
Melton, J. Gordon. The Vampire Book (Farmington Hills, Mich.: Visible Ink Press, 1999).
————. Vampires on Video (Detroit: Visible Ink Press, 1997).
Miller, Elizabeth. Dracula (New York: Parkstone Press, 2000). A lavishly illustrated survey.
————. A Dracula Handbook (Bucharest, Romania: Gerot, 2003. English edition).
————. Dracula: Sense and Nonsense (Westcliff-on-Sea, U.K.: Desert Island Books, 1998).
————. Dracula: The Shade and the Shadow (Westcliff-on-Sea, U.K.: Desert Island Books, 1998).
————. Reflections on Dracula: Ten Essays (White Rock, B.C.: Transylvania Press, Inc., 1997).
Newman, Kim. Anno Dracula (London: Simon & Schuster Ltd., 1992).
Nordau, Max. Degeneration (New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1895).
Pick, Daniel. Faces of Degeneration: A European Disorder (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989).
————. Svengali’s Web: The Alien Enchanter in Modern Culture (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000).
Praz, Mario. The Romantic Agony (London/New York/Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1933).
Rhodes, Gary Don. Lugosi (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, 1997).
Riley, Philip J., ed. Dracula: The 1931 Shooting Script (Abescon, N.J.: MagicImage Filmbooks, 1990).
Saberhagen, Fred. The Dracula Tape (1975 reprint, New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 1979).
Shepard, Jim. Nosferatu: a Novel (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998).
Skal, David J. The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror, rev. ed. (New York: Faber and Faber, 2000).
————. Screams of Reason: Mad Science and Modern Culture (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1997).
————. V Is For Vampire: The A to Z Guide to Everything Undead (New York: Plume Books, 1996).
————, ed. Dracula: The Ultimate, Illustrated Edition of the World-Famous Vampire Play (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1994).
————, ed. Vampires: Encounters with the Undead (New York: Black Dog and Leventhal, 2001).
Starshine, Sylvia, ed. Dracula: or the Undead (Nottingham: Pumpkin Press, 1997).
Stoker, Bram. Dracula. A Norton Critical Edition; Nina Auerbach and David J. Skal, eds. (1897 reprint, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1997).
————. Dracula’s Guest, and Other Weird Stories (London: Routledge, 1914).
————. Famous Imposters (London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1910).
————. The Lair of the White Worm (London: Rider, 1911).
————. Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1906).
————. Under the Sunset (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Ribington, 1882).
Summers, Montague. The Vampire: His Kith and Kin (1928 reprint, Hyde Park, N.Y.: University Books, 1960).
Traubel, Horace, ed. With Walt Whitman in Camden, vol. 4 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1953).
Waller, Gregory A. The Living and the Undead (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986).
Wolf, Leonard. The Annotated Dracula (New York: Clarkson Potter, 1975).
Articles and Essays
Arata, Stephen D. “The Occidental Tourist: Dracula and the Anxiety of Reverse Colonization,” Victorian Studies (Summer 1990), pp. 627–34.
Bentley, C. F. “The Monster in the Bedroom: Sexual Symbolism in Bram Stoker’s Dracula,” Literature and Psychology 22, no. 1 (1972), pp. 27–34.
Bierman, Joseph S. “Dracula: Prolonged Childhood Illness, and the Oral Triad,” American Imago 29 (1972), pp. 186–98.
Craft, Christopher. “Just Another Kiss: Inversion and Paranoia in Bram Stoker’s Dracula,” in Craft’s Another Kind of Love: Male Homosexual Desire in English Discourse 1850–1920 (Berkeley/Los Angeles/London: University of California Press, 1994).
Gerard, Emily. “Transylvanian Superstitions,” The Nineteenth Century (July 1885), pp. 128–44.
Richardson, Maurice. “The Psychoanalysis of Ghost Stories,” Twentieth Century 166 (1959), pp. 419–31.
Roth, Phyllis A. “Suddenly Sexual Women in Bram Stoker’s Dracula,” Literature and Psychology 27 (1977), pp. 113–21.
Senf, Carol A. “Dracula: The Unseen Face in the Mirror,” Journal of Narrative Technique 9 (1979), pp. 160–70.