Let the Right One In |
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Author:
| Billson, Anne |
ISBN: | 978-1-906733-96-4 |
Publication Date: | Dec 2011 |
Publisher: | Columbia University Press
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Book Format: | Digital (delivered electronically) |
List Price: | USD $14.99 |
Book Description:
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Set on a housing estate in Stockholm in the early 1980s, the startlingly original Let the Right One In is the story of a lonely child who makes friends with the strange girl in the next apartment. Acclaimed film critic and horror novelist Anne Billson looks at how it has drawn from, and wrung new twists on classics of vampire cinema and how vampire mythology adapts itself to the modern world.
Set on a housing estate in Stockholm in the early 1980s, the startlingly original Let the Right One In is the story of a lonely child who makes friends with the strange girl in the next apartment. Acclaimed film critic and horror novelist Anne Billson looks at how it has drawn from, and wrung new twists on classics of vampire cinema and how vampire mythology adapts itself to the modern world.