'The definitive collection of 19th Century literature in which the vampire, or vampirism, both embodied and atmospheric, appears. Seventeen seminal texts by legendary European authors, covering the whole of that delirious period from Gothic and Romantic, through Symbolism and Decadence to proto-Surrealism and beyond, in a single volume charged with sex, blood and horror. Includes: Bram Stoker, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Machen, Le Comte de Lauteamont, Count Stenbock, J K Huysmans, Jean Lorrain, Théophile Gautier, Charles Nodier, J Sheridan Le Fanu, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Oscar Wilde, Ivan Turgenev, Charlotte Brontë, J M Ryder.' -(http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/books/t/t2238.htm accessed 28 Mach 2011)
Even the vampires of the 19th Century were worth pining after in relativity to the modern take thereof. Unlike Twilight, True Blood, or Vampire Diaries, there was some intrigue, depth and ambiguity in the nature of the vampires. They still chose drank human blood (world peace seems to be the new goal of today's modern, non-human-eating vampire). Their novels in which they were brought to life still embraced their origins and their history-which, in the case of vampires who are eternal and immortal, allowed for such a rich and descriptive field of narration. Nostalgia is sometimes better described as a rejection of the now, in relativity to the then.
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