Sources for Dracula and Lesbian Vampires!

Hey everyone! So my vampire duology has come to an end, and we will be moving on to other topics for the next video! I hope you enjoyed this deep dive into why vampires are so queer! The topic consumed my life for almost two months, and its hard to move on, but move on I must! 

I have sources here with links to stuff which is available for free online! I think I got everything here, but my notes tend to be very chaotic, so let me know if I missed something and I'll find the source for you!

Also if you want to read them, Carmilla and The Vampyre are in the public domain, so they can be read for free, and there are various free audio recordings of them online too!

Do I use too many exclamation marks in my posts?! Probably! I just want you to feel my enthusiasm!

Before we move on, here's a photo of me feeding on Miško's blood! Exclamation mark!

Sources!

"Alan Ball: Most Vampires Are Bisexual", On Top Magazine, September 05, 2008 

""A Wilde Desire Took Me": The Homoerotic History of Dracula." by Talia Schaffer, 1994

The B Word: Bisexuality in Contemporary Film and Television by Maria San Filippo, 2013

"Introduction: Finding the Vampire's Soul," Bram Stoker's Dracula: The Film and the Legend, by Francis Ford Coppola and Janes V. Hart, 1992

"The Lesbian Vampire on Film: A Subgenre of Horror" by Andrea Weiss, Dracula’s Daughters: The Female Vampire on Film, edited by Douglas Brode and Leah Deyneka, 2014*

The Living Dead: A Study of the Vampire in Romantic Literature by James B. Twitchell, 1981

"The Lord Byron/John Polidori Relationship and the Foundation of the Early Nineteenth-century Literary Vampire" by Matthew Beresford, 2020 

Monsters in the Closet Homosexuality and the Horror Film (Inside Popular Film) by Harry M. Benshoff

"'Paradise Lost' Inspires Meditation on Vampires" by Janet Maslin, The New York Times, Oct 28th, 1993 

Screening Out the Past : The Birth of Mass Culture and the Motion Picture Industry by Lary May, 1980

“Sex, Blood and (Un)Death: The Queer Vampire and HIV Sex, Blood and (Un)Death: The Queer Vampire and HIV” by Carlen Lavigne, Journal of Dracula Studies, Volume 6, 2004 

Submit to Anne by Anne Rice, September 16,1996, Salon 

Vampires and Violets: Lesbians in the Cinema by Andrea Weiss, 1992*

"Viewers defend Dracula being ‘bisexual’ in terrifying new BBC series" by Daniel Megarry, Gay Times 

*Weiss's essay in Dracula's Daughters is derived from Vampires and Violets but with a little bit of new content which I used in the video!