Friday essay: why YA gothic fiction is booming - and girl monsters are on the rise
- Written by Michelle Smith, Senior Lecturer in Literary Studies, Monash University
Zoey Deutch in the film Vampire Academy (2014).Angry Films, Kintop Pictures, Preger Entertainment
An 18-year-old girl prepares to die to enable the birth of her half-vampire baby. Her spine is broken in the process, and the fanged baby begins to gnaw its way through her stomach before the girl’s husband performs a vampiric Cesarean section....
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