Vampire Movies (Close-Ups, Book 2)

The indispensable, illustrated pocket guide to the world of vampire movies, from Nosferatu to A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night.

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When F. W. Murnau brought Nosferatu to the screen in 1922 he ushered in the bloody reign of cinema’s most venerable villain – the vampire. Nocturnal, fanged and insatiable for human blood, the vampire has infected the public consciousness like no other movie monster.

In this illustrated pocket guide, Charles Bramesco goes vampire hunting across a century of cinema, stalking around lonely Transylvanian castles, dusty New York apartments and rain-soaked Washington woods to discover why the vampire has become cinema’s most enduring villain.

• FIRST SERIES FROM CULT FILM MAGAZINE: Little White Lies is an award-winning British film magazine, described by the Guardian as ‘the most beautiful film magazine on the shelves’, with a print readership of 60k and a digital readership of 500k unique users per month. They are stocked in WH Smiths, Barnes & Noble, independents, boutiques and Ace Hotel, with an audience demographic of 18-45. The magazine retails at £6, so at £9.99 the Close-Ups books aren’t a big jump for that core readership.

• BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED POCKET GUIDES: The Close-Ups series brings together the best young film journalists and illustrators, who explore their subjects with wit, verve and expert authority, in all sorts of idiosyncratic and unconventional ways. In stark contrast to the sterner, more academic film guides on the market (e.g. BFI Classics) Close-Ups are be refreshingly fun and accessible – more gift books than stodgy film textbooks. Key comparisons include the Wallpaper* City Guides (400k TCM) and the 33 1/3 series (80k TCM).

• PROMISING YOUNG FILM CRITIC: Charles Bramesco is a former staff writer for Rolling Stone and his work has previously appeared in the Guardian, Vanity Fair, Newsweek, Forbes, Vulture, The A.V. Club, Indiewire, The Dissolve, Vox, Pitchfork, and Uproxx.