{"product_id":"hollywood-gothic-the-tangled-web-of-dracula-from-novel-to-stage-to-screen","title":"Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen","description":"A fully updated edition of David J. Skal's Hollywood Gothic, \"The ultimate book on Dracula\" (Newsweek).\n\nThe primal image of the black-caped vampire Dracula has become an indelible fixture of the modern imagination. It's recognition factor rivals, in its own perverse way, the familiarity of Santa Claus. Most of us can recite without prompting the salient characteristics of the vampire: sleeping by day in its coffin, rising at dusk to feed on the blood of the living; the ability to shapeshift into a bat, wolf, or mist; a mortal vulnerability to a wooden stake through the heart or a shaft of sunlight.\n\nIn this critically acclaimed excursion through the life of a cultural icon, David J. Skal maps out the archetypal vampire's relentless trajectory from Victorian literary oddity to movie idol to cultural commodity, digging through the populist veneer to reveal what the prince of darkness says about us all.\n\nincludes black-and-white Illustrations throughout, plus a new Introduction.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0571211585\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.0571211585.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Skal, David J.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41491974848570,"sku":"DBV.0571211585.G","price":12.01,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/0571211585-0.jpg?v=1782669680","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/hollywood-gothic-the-tangled-web-of-dracula-from-novel-to-stage-to-screen","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}