The vampire's appearance in film has shifted dramatically, from the traditional, eerie Gothic figure to sleek ... and often sexually alluring figures. These modern-day vampires were no longer ...

Not the first woman to hunt the undead 7. The idea of a female vampire hunter like Buffy appears in a nineteenth-century book In Paul Féval’s Vampire City from 1874, real-life Gothic author Ann ...

Chief among the changes was the fact that it was set in the modern day ... Carmilla's mortality. A gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated ...