Kris Hirschmann specializes in non-fiction educational literature and learning kits. Her production, Vampires in Literature, is a short and engaging work created to explain to teen fans about the growth of vampires as a literary and multimedia character.
Vampires in Literature recalls the humble beginnings of the vampire as fictional literary characters going back into the early nineteenth century as a work of a friend of the great Lord Byron. The book tells of the evolution of the mythology through fiction and the explosion in popularity of the vampire that was Bram Stokers’ Dracula. The vampire remained an adult fictional villain through the first half of the twentieth century, but a new burst of fictional stories again transformed the beast and started to explore their vestiges of humanity, through to Stephenie Meyers’ popular teen series Twilight. The book is peppered with sidebars with related pieces of interesting trivia.
Hirschmanns’ book is also an excellent reader advisory resource to any fan looking to explore the vampire as a literary character, in any media format. It concludes with a detailed bibliography and exhaustive index.