“Horror hostess, bondage goddess, Charles Addams cartoon comes to life, Vampire was every first-generation fanboy's wet dream. Scott Poole takes us on an unforgettable ride through the overlapping underworlds of B&D magazines, Hollywood noir, and early political liberation movements that inspired actress Maila Nurmi to challenge a postwar culture bent on stifling women's choices, bodies, and desires. This book is a subversive masterpiece.”
![“The Anne Rice books are a lot about infection. I read "Interview With the Vampire" a million times when I was in seventh and eighth grade. Also, [writing Gavriel's backstory] definitely came from those books: I sat down and reread them all and thought a lot about… the way in which vampirism is…” quote by Holly Black](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8b1/holly-black-329_books_the-anne-rice-books-are-a-lot-about-infe_2240821.jpg)
![“[N]ames were what you wore forever, and she felt that she'd sent her daughters out in tacky rabbit fur coats when they should have been wrapped in mink.” quote by Sheri Holman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/38a/sheri-holman-26835_names_n-ames-were-what-you-wore-forever-and-sh_452445.jpg)
![“[H]e went ahead and named them without her, pulling from the spiral notebook of names they'd been collecting, putting together first and middle names with no rhyme or reason . . . names that obviously didn't flow.” quote by Sheri Holman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b4b/sheri-holman-26835_quote_h-e-went-ahead-and-named-them-without-he_460029.jpg)
