Beastly Babes

<p class=ql-align-justify><strong style=color: rgba(92 0 0 1)><em>Ladies first!</em></strong></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(92 0 0 1)>Long before Dracula haunted the pages of literature readers devoured tales of the vixens of vampirism: Carmilla Lamia Clarimonde and others!</strong><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Nine classic Hell's belles of horror fill the pages of this curated edited and annotated volume of traditional vampire tales written by literary greats including Poe Kipling and Goethe -- giving readers a murderous mix of fabulous </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>femmes fatales</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>!</span></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(92 0 0 1)>Included within this collection's covers are classic poems and stories mostly written in the Victorian era and featuring female vampires as well as modern notes and footnotes regarding the authors' lives and literary choices.</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Classic contributors include </span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>Edgar Allan Poe Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Samuel Taylor Coleridge John Keats Ernst Raupach Madison Julius Cawein Théophile Gautier and Rudyard Kipling and modern notes for the anthology were researched and written by Shannon Delany. </span><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Book Club Questions and a list of Sources conclude the volume allowing readers to further engage their curiosity.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This collection of retellings also includes Notes with brief author biographies Book Club Questions and a list of sources.</span></p>