Books by Whitley Strieber
“The Hunger is about a love triangle featuring a woman called Miriam Blaylock, who would later be played by Catherine Deneuve in the movie adaptation with David Bowie as her lover. Miriam turns her romantic partners into vampires, and she’ll keep them with her and treat them as an equal. But she’s immortal, and they’re not. They live a very, very long time, but after a while they need more and more blood, and the blood works less and less, and they begin to age. And the thing that I love is that Miriam has always made a promise to her lovers that she’ll keep them with her forever, so they don’t die – they just turn to these little withered husks, and she keeps them locked in suitcases and trunks in her attic. It really is one of the creepiest images, I think, in all of vampire fiction: this attic full of chained up trunks, rustling with the husks of all her dried up lovers. She has literal baggage that she drags around with her.” Read more...
Interviews where books by Whitley Strieber were recommended
The Best Vampire Books, recommended by Grady Hendrix
There are two essential features of a vampire, says award-winning author Grady Hendrix: they look just like us, and they need us. Beyond this, they are highly adaptable, and have stood in for pandemics, economic exploitation, addiction, abuse, true crime and lust. Here, Hendrix introduces five novels that have shaped this complicated monster.
