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From: The Washington Post
Date: 20030810
Author:Reviewed by Douglas E. Winter

DAYLIGHT

By Elizabeth Knox

Ballantine. 356 pp. $23.95

Not another vampire novel.

These days the very sight of the V-word on a book jacket prompts a shiver of dread -- not of creaking coffins and the risen dead, but of one more predictable tale of bloodsucking bathos.

Introduced to Anglo-American literature by John Polidori's skewering of Lord Byron in The Vampyre (1819) and made popular by the penny dreadful Varney the Vampire (1845-47) and Bram Stoker's famous Dracula (1897), stories of bloodthirsty immortals have beguiled readers for centuries. But when Stephen King and Anne Rice opened the ...

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