well as in the film adaptation of Hammer Films Production Dracula (1958), in which Christopher Lee interprets the role of the Count as an aristocratic attractive vampire. In this way, writers and directors of the twentieth century created vampires that made the audience feel more sympathetic towards them than to those creatures of the folklore and the previous literature. In what concerns to literature, there have been many different representations of the vampiric figure. From the beginning of the twentieth century it is possible to find some tales of the genre such as “The Tomb of Sarah” by F.G. Loring (1900) or “Luella Miller” by Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman (1903). Later in the 1930s it is possible to see the tale by H.P. Lovecraft “The Shunned House” (1937), which presents a vampire very different from
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The first great novel of the vampire genre in the 20th century appeared in the 1950s by the hand of Richard Matheson's I Am Legend (1954), in which the vampire takes control over the world after a holocaust in which humankind has almost disappeared. In the 1970s Stephen King recuperates the image of the vampire illustrated in Dracula, the creature reflects its colonizing ideal, that can be seen in the Count, in a small village of New England, Jerusalem's Lot, which gives the title of the story: Salem's Lot (1975). In the same decade, Anne Rice brought back the literary vampire with her novel Interview with the Vampire (1976) together with other works of her own that ended to be known as the Vampire Chronicles, illustrating a monster that differs from the classical views of it; a beast that still maintained its photophobia and the destructive nature of sunlight on them. In the 1980s emerges the novel The Hunger by Whitley Strieber (1981), in which the lesbian vampire and sexuality are remarkable within the society of
The first great novel of the vampire genre in the 20th century appeared in the 1950s by the hand of Richard Matheson's I Am Legend (1954), in which the vampire takes control over the world after a holocaust in which humankind has almost disappeared. In the 1970s Stephen King recuperates the image of the vampire illustrated in Dracula, the creature reflects its colonizing ideal, that can be seen in the Count, in a small village of New England, Jerusalem's Lot, which gives the title of the story: Salem's Lot (1975). In the same decade, Anne Rice brought back the literary vampire with her novel Interview with the Vampire (1976) together with other works of her own that ended to be known as the Vampire Chronicles, illustrating a monster that differs from the classical views of it; a beast that still maintained its photophobia and the destructive nature of sunlight on them. In the 1980s emerges the novel The Hunger by Whitley Strieber (1981), in which the lesbian vampire and sexuality are remarkable within the society of