Essay Archive - Stoker and Rice's Books About Vampires
Stoker and Rice's Books About Vampires
Bram Stoker's Dracula and Anne Rice's series The Vampire Chronicles are
books about vampires. The way the two authors write about the vampires' powers,
the way they live and how they are created and destroyed prove that two books
about the same subject can be different in many ways. It also shows how the
vampire legend has evolved over a long period of time.
Special powers are used in both of the authors writings. A few of the
powers are the same, or very close to it, in each account. enhaced or super-
human stren....
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