We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
What to Expect When You Are Expecting (a Vampire): Reading the Vampire Child.
- Authors
Nevarez, Lisa
- Abstract
'Salem's Lot (1975) by Stephen King and Let the Right One In (2004) by John Ajvide Lindqvist offer truly horrific interpretations of the vampire child and the nursing mother that add a nuanced element of terror to the texts. In light of contemporary discussions about the medical establishment and birth and care for a child, 'Salem's Lot and Let the Right One In emerge with a frightening message that spans the 1970s through the 2000s, from America to Sweden: nursing can exist as a scene of horror. While the more obvious horror emerges in the figure of the vampire in each of these texts, and is accompanied by gory imagery and moments of terror, a more sinister undercurrent surfaces with the vampire child-mother relationship in these two novels, which can be viewed through a Marxist lens.
- Subjects
VAMPIRES in literature; SALEM'S Lot (Book); LET the Right One In (Book : Lindqvist); KING, Stephen, 1947-; LINDQVIST, John Ajvide, 1968-; HORROR tales
- Publication
Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, 2015, Vol 26, Issue 1, p92
- ISSN
0897-0521
- Publication type
Literary Criticism