Blood Read : The Vampire As Metaphor in Contemporary Culture
Edited by Joan Gordon, Veronica Hollinger & Brian W. Aldiss, 1997

Blood Read looks at a wide range of vampire works, from the perspectives of writers and scholars, showing how the changes in the genre over the past century reflects changes in culture. Three authors of vampire fiction (Charnas, Stableford and Gomez) discuss their uses of the vampire.