Un-Dead TV
The Ultimate Guide to Vampire Television
by Brad Middleton
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Pub Date Oct 22 2016 | Archive Date Jan 01 2017
Broad Universe | By Light Unseen Media
Description
Bela Lugosi, whose iconic portrayal of Stoker’s vampire was a hit on both the stage and screen, appeared in 1949 on one of the first televised variety series, The Texaco Star Theater. In the guise of his most famous role, Lugosi brought the vampire into our living rooms, heralding an undead presence on TV that steadily increased before skyrocketing with the arrival of Buffy Summers to Sunnydale, California.
The medium of television, in turn, has played a critical role in the evolution of the vampire; these fanged fiends have become as diverse as the population that they prey upon, and every generation creates their own interpretation. For over sixty-five years, the undead have bled the TV airwaves, rising from the crypt in all manner of programming. In this expanded and updated second edition, Un-Dead TV catalogues over one thousand such appearances, and is the only book of its kind to explore this phenomenon to the extent that it truly deserves.
A Note From the Publisher
In 1994, Brad Middleton created “Vampyres Only,” the first vampire pop culture website on the Internet (http://vampyres.ca). It remains the largest, longest-running and most extensive online source for all things vampiric. The website has been profiled across all media, and Brad’s expertise on the subject has led to consultations with such authors as Katherine Ramsland, who tapped him as a source for her ground-breaking book Piercing the Darkness: Undercover with Vampires in America Today (HarperCollins, 1998). In 2009, Brad wrote about television vampires for the third edition of The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead (Visible Ink Press, 2011). Realizing that the subject demanded further study, he continued researching for another three years, which culminated in the publication of Un-Dead TV in 2012—which has been updated and revised for this second edition.
Advance Praise
"Perusing this book is nothing but pure entertainment, yet both fans and scholars of the sub-genre will
come away enlightened...Kudos to Middleton for this huge bite into previously uncharted bloodsucker
territory."
NANCY KILPATRICK
Dark Fantasy/Horror author and editor
(as reviewed in BEWARE THE DARK #2)
"I wholeheartedly recommend this book if you enjoy reading about vampires on television, or if you are an
author writing about those subjects. Un-Dead TV is an invaluable resource, and one that will find prized real
estate on my office shelf."
JOHN KENNETH MUIR
Award-winning author, journalist and critic
"Un-Dead TV fills a previously empty research niche, and provides lots of browsing entertainment. Vampire
lovers and scholars should find much to like in these pages."
Robert Morrish
TWILIGHT RIDGE
"Un-Dead TV is an amazing work, a vampirologist's dream resource book. From page one to the very end,
even the most educated vampire researcher and knowledgeable fan alike will learn details on vampires in
television's history. Author Brad Middleton truly lives up to the book's subtitle 'The Ultimate Guide to
Vampire Television' as he covers everything from Dark Shadows to cartoons and obscure vampires you may
never have heard of. Without a doubt it belongs in the library of anyone who is fascinated by vampires!"
E.R. Vernor "Corvis Nocturnum"
author of Allure of the Vampire: Our Sexual Attraction to the Undead (Dark Moon Press 2009) and Vampire
Evolution: From Myth to Modern Day (Schiffer Publishing 2014)
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Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781935303626 |
| PRICE | $33.00 (USD) |
