![]() ![]() Fevre Dream deals with a paddleboat captain, Abner Marsh, involved in trade along the Mississippi River in the late Antebellum period (plantation era pre-American Civil War). did try his hand at the vampire novel, and in so doing laid the groundwork for what would later become his dark fantasy masterpiece, A Song of Ice and Fire and its inaugural novel, A Game of Thrones. With the 1982 publication of his novel Fevre Dream, however, Martin Martin, George R. ![]() John in Moonlight, Louis in Interview with the Vampire, Angel & Spike in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Edward Cullen in Twilight, to name a few key examples. Sondra Ford Swift suggests that the modern trope of the reinvented, more highly complex vampire extends back to Barnabas Collins in the late 1960s television show Dark Shadows (155). The earliest origins of the sympathetic vampire can be traced back to the Varney the Vampire serial in 1845. and even Bram Stoker to the mid-nineteenth century. That trope is an old one, extending back through Anne Rice Rice, Anne. Martin did not invent or even popularize the sympathetic vampire. ![]()
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