The land beyond the forest

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• Vampire myth in literature and on film
• Boris Perić, Tomislav Pletenac

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Although Bram Stoker was lively interested in folk traditions and superstitions, following with great attention the news about the occasional outbreaks of vampirism, like the one about "Vampires in New England" that he from the Pulitzer`s "yellow press" the New York World, dated February 2 1896, transferred almost whole in his most famous novel, his Dracula in the first place remains a desired child of literary fiction, "postbyron vampire" that was the interest of Goethe and Voltaire. About him wrote countless authors, from John Polidori and Sheridan Le Fanu, over Rudyard Kipling and Gustav Meyrink to Anne Rice and Stephen King, and he was immortalized on the big screen by the greats of film art such as Murnau, Herzog and Coppola. Weak reference to Vlad Tepeš gives him a historical justification, and painful issues such as xenophobia or AIDS make it today current as well.
The literary elite of the eighteenth and nineteenth century took up the motif of vampire after hordes of undead emerged from misery, disease and fear, and for centuries terrorized the entire region of the Old and New World, about what Stoker informed himself from different sources.

• ISBN: 978-953-7177-81-2
• Year of the edition: 2015
• Number of pages: 192
• Cover: paperback
• Dimensions: 135x210 mm