Virgin Vampires

This blend of history and dark fantasy feasts upon vampire lore, reinventing the manner in which real-life monsters were transformed into pop culture icons by two of Ireland’s great writers. Dubliners Sheridan Le Fanu and Bram Stoker travel to Transylvania where they race to save the women they love from the Countess Elizabeth Bathory. After the blood bath, Le Fanu and Stoker pose as doctors John Seward and Abraham Van Helsing to confront Vlad the Impaler and Count Dracula himself. Together for the first time, this immortal cast offers a highly erotic exploration of the vampire’s eternal allure.

Douglas Brode is a novelist, screenwriter, playwright, film historian, and award winning journalist. He teaches courses on various popular culture subjects at the Newhouse School of Public Communications, Department of Radio, TV and Film, at Syracuse University. The author of more than 35 books on the visual and performing arts, he regularly appears on national radio and TV shows as a special guest.

Joe Orsak is a graphic artist from Syracuse, New York. He traveled the world as a youth, graduating from high school in Rome. He returned to the States for a degree from Syracuse University in 1974. While working in advertising he developed newspaper strips, comic books and graphic novels.

Written by Douglas Brode

Illustrated by Joe Orsak

Format: softcover (7 x 10), graphic novel
Pages: 168
Bibliographic Info: full color illustrations
Copyright Date: 2012
pISBN: 978-0-7864-6298-8
eISBN: 978-1-4766-0065-9
Imprint: McFarland

“Sort of a first for McFarland—a graphic horror novel. Very nicely illustrated by Joe Orsak and written by Douglas Brode. They succeed very nicely here. A good read”—Little Shoppe of Horrors.