Patricia Lettis- Lit of Horror, Fantasy, and SciFi

I am unsure if Anne Rice knew that she was changing the vampire genre as a whole. She may have seen them in this light or had this idea of them while writing. Her romantic viewing of the formally monsters of the night is interesting. She has given them a human-like moodiness that they lacked before. Interview with the Vampire is even having an imprint on Children’s movies such as Mom’s got a Date with a Vampire (Boyum) and The Little Vampire (Edel). Both of these films are Disney Channel movies made six years after the Interview with a Vampire film (Boyum). Both involve a human acting vampire who ‘whiner’ about being moral. The way Anne Rice changed the vampire may have lead to the expansion of vampire children’s media. The vampire is now emotional and self-aware of their relationship to humans. In, Genndy Tartakovsky’s Hotel Transylvania the main vampire family run a hotel for monsters, knowing that humans would not let them walk alongside them. My first recent vampire f...

“… the Gothic was conceived have revealed a host of ironies regarding its frequent condemnation from the pulpit.” (Frank) The cursing of gothic styles and themes by the churches and it’s followers is confusing to me. The gothic shows the moral in between and the punishment of people who stray into the realms of evil. Making a character this way, often in first person, requires a draw from the immoral. A seduction and lure by the devil himself. The Bible has shown the devil and demon this way too. I think that the gothic style may be extreme catholic in this way. The protagonist dipping into evil and being engulfed by it. Edgar Allen Poe is a master of the gothic short story. Everyone knows the moral ground of The Tale-Tell Heart (Poe). A little known story is his The Black Cat . In The Black Cat, a man who murders in driven mad by a black cat who follows him. It may be understandable that the cat is not but, the cat ends up making him confess (Poe). A gothic story without...

I am a 2nd year student in Illustration. My name is Patricia Lettis, no nicknames have really stuck. Blogger is a new site for me. This is a test of the site.