Vampire Lovers

A Vampire's Love made it all worthwhile... Accepting an invitation to a paranormal investigation on Halloween night was supposed to help Genice disprove superstitions and myths. Instead, it brought encounters with ghosts, the death of a dear friend, and the awakening of a side of her she never knew existed. Filled with excitement, peril, and sizzling romance, this is a story that you'll want to read more than once! WHAT SOME READERS ARE SAYING ABOUT THIS STEAMY PARANORMAL ROMANCE "What a completely compelling story! I loved all of the mystical elements brought into the story. This is not your typical romance love story, it's even better! There's action, excitement, drama, intrigue, and of course, a smoldering hot vampier love interest!!" "What an incredible paranormal romance! I hope there are more to this book!" "I loved, loved, loved this book! This book had everything I wanted in a paranormal romance, insta love from an alpha vampire trying to protect his mate, drama, some mystery and lots of paranormal activity. You don't want to miss this book." "There is lots of action and paranormal activity in this novel. Throw in some steamy sex scenes and you have yourself a novel to read while relaxing with a glass of wine." "This is the first book I’ve read by Ellen Sheehan and I loved it. She has a nice writing style and tells the story well. "

Gordon Jensen was born in Seattle, WA, and obtained M. D. degree from Yale University School of Medicine. Internship and residency training in pediatrics was at the Yale-New Haven Hospital. He was fellow at the prestigious Yale Child Study Center. Psychiatric residency was at University Hospital, Seattle. He is board certified in pediatrics, psychiatry, and sexology. He is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, School of Medicine at University of California, Davis, and is active in clinical practice. He is father of four children, and lives in Hawaii.

Monster in the Closet is a history of the horrors film that explores the genre's relationship to the social and cultural history of homosexuality in America. Drawing on a wide variety of films and primary source materials including censorship files, critical reviews, promotional materials, fanzines, men's magazines, and popular news weeklies, the book examines the historical figure of the movie monster in relation to various medical, psychological, religious and social models of homosexuality. While recent work within gay and lesbian studies has explored how the genetic tropes of the horror film intersect with popular culture's understanding of queerness, this is the first book to examine how the concept of the monster queer has evolved from era to era. From the gay and lesbian sensibilities encoded into the form and content of the classical Hollywood horror film, to recent films which play upon AIDS-related fears. Monster in the Closet examines how the horror film started and continues, to demonize (or quite literally "monsterize") queer sexuality, and what the pleasures and "costs" of such representations might be both for individual spectators and culture at large.

Brings together the work of both film scholars and queer theorists to advance a more sophisticated notion of queer film criticism.

Before Bella and Edward; Stefan and Damon Salvatore; and Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter, there was Lestat and Louis, The Lost Boys, and Buffy Summers. Before True Blood and Let the Right One In, there was Dark Shadows and Anne Rice’s Vampire Chronicles. And then there is the most prominent of them all: Dracula, immortalized by Bram Stoker in 1897. Whether they’re evil, bloodsucking monsters or sparkling like diamonds in the sunlight, vampires have been capturing our imagination since their modest beginnings in the rustic fantasies of southeastern Europe in the early eighteenth century. Today, they’re everywhere, appearing even in movies in Japan and Korea and in reggae music in Jamaica and South Africa. Why have vampires gone viral in recent years? In The Rise of the Vampire, Erik Butler seeks to explain our enduring fascination with the creatures of the night. Exploring why a being of humble origins has achieved success of such monstrous proportions, Butler considers the vampire in myth, literature, film, journalism, political cartoons, music, television, and video games. He describes how and why they have come to give expression to the darker side of human life—though vampires evoke age-old mystery, they also embody many of the uncertainties of the modern world. Butler also ponders the role global markets and digital technology have played in making vampires a worldwide phenomenon. Whether you’re a fan of classic vampire tales or new additions to the mythology, The Rise of the Vampire is a fascinating look at our collective obsession with the undead.

Vampire characters are ubiquitous in popular culture, serving as metaphors for society's most sensitive subjects--sexuality, gender roles, race, ethnicity, class--and often channeling widespread fears of immigration, crime, terrorism and addiction. This book explores pop culture's vampires variously as sexual seducers, savage monsters, noble protectors and drainers of human power. The author discusses three real-life role models for vampire characters.