Night Academy

It was within the Gothic genre that the literary vampire derived. The literary vampire has gained new popularity in the last decade with a new formula focusing on sympathetic vampires. This essay examines four contemporary vampire literary series that have all included a special vampire school. The four series analyzed in this essay are House of Night by P.C. and Kristin Cast, Strange Angels by Lili St. Crow, Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead and Vamps by Nancy A. Collins. The essay determines the school‘s purpose in the vampires lives and how it affects the protagonists who are all females inflicted with some kind of vampirism. The first chapter introduces the thesis and material used in the essay. The second chapter outlines the archtypical vampire focusing on the novel Dracula (1897) and summarizes the traditional qualities characterising the literary vampire. The third chapter focuses on describing the heroines and analyzing their behavior and motivation in regards to their situation at a school filled with other vampires. The fourth chapter goes over the difference in each series school syllabus and system, and analyzes the purpose of the schools. The series are analysed in regards to Gothic literature and its heritage. The essay relies mostl