The Vampire Tapestry (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Suzy McKee Charnas
- First Published: 1979
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Fantasy—feminist
- Time of Work: The 1970’s
- Setting: New York City and Santa Fe, New Mexico
- Genres: Long fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: 1970’s, New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Folkloric or magical people, New York City, West, U.S., Feminism, New Mexico, Southwest, Anthropology or anthropologists, Vampires
- Locales: New York, NY, Santa Fe, NM
The Plot
The Vampire Tapestry is a sequential grouping of five periods, related in linked stories, in the life of Dr. Edward Weyland, a vampire masquerading as an anthropologist and academician. Part 1, “The Ancient Mind at Work,” depicts Weyland as a sexually attractive vampire and wealthy academician involved with a sleep research center at Cayslin College, where he preys on his experimental subjects. Katje de Groot, an expatriate South African Boer and widow of a Cayslin professor, discovers that Weyland is a vampire. Mrs. de Groot ignores race and gender politics...
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