caitri | A Book a Day: Fanged Fan Fiction

Every day I'm posting an image of a book I like. Today's book is two great tastes that go together--fic and vampires! A lot of academic books on fic tend to focus on the theory of the genre, whereas this one is pure, specific, literary critique. One day I really need to expand a paper I gave on the "vampire au" in which writers take texts without vampires and then...add them. (Sometimes corporate authors do too--there was a Halloween series of alternative covers for Marvel books a while back that showed various Avengers as vampires--Black Widow was the prettiest, because of course she would be.) Anyway, this book goes directly into analyzing specific stories in deep detail, and it is marvelous. More of this kind of work, please!