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- W4280522058 abstract "Some, but not all, fictional vampires from Europe arrived on US soil, and those that did had varying degrees of success with readers and theatergoers. It is a decidedly American tale, one of foreign invasion by vampires, but this is only part of the story of American vampires in the nineteenth century. The key missing link in previous histories is America’s first vampire novel. Published in 1885, The Vampire; or, Detective Brand’s Greatest Case has languished in obscurity, cited only briefly in a few recent texts. And yet it may have been the most widely read vampire novel in America prior to the publication of Stoker’s Dracula. Written anonymously, The Vampire; or, Detective Brand’s Greatest Case was published as a “dime novel.” Dime novels—which were really novellas or “novelettes”—featured tales of Native Americans, western heroes and outlaws, the American Civil War, detectives, and/or horror. Some have attributed The Vampire; or, Detective Brand’s Greatest Case to Hawley Smart, but more important than the writer’s name is what he or she wrote, as this dime novel is quite different from its predecessors in vampire fiction. The book’s key revelation—that the “supernatural” vampire is merely an insane, bloodthirsty villain making puncture marks on his victims’ throats—places it at the forefront of an entirely new type of vampire fiction, one that would later thrive in such films as London after Midnight (Tod Browning, 1927), Mark of the Vampire (Tod Browning, 1935), and—most especially—Martin (George Romero, 1978)." @default.
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- W4280522058 title "America's First Vampire Novel and the Supernatural as Artifice" @default.
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