Vampire

About this book

Frank Braun has survived earlier encounters with dangerous desires, but wartime America confronts him with another kind of obsession. A mysterious illness draws him towards a disturbing relationship between vitality, passion and blood.

Hanns Heinz Ewers's Vampire closes his Frank Braun trilogy with a Gothic story shaped by the politics and anxieties of the First World War. The novel's treatment of race and nationalism reflects troubling elements of its period and author. Its psychological extremity is inseparable from the history surrounding it.