VAMPIRA: DARK GODDESS OF HORROR
Book ID/图书代码： 12312515B85097
English Summary/英文概要： In Vampire, Scott Poole gives us the eclectic life of the dancer, stripper, actress, and artist Maila Nurmi, who would reinvent herself as Vampira during the backdrop of 1950s America, an era of both chilling conformity and the nascent rumblings of the countercultural response that led from the Beats and free jazz to the stirring of the LGBT movement and the hardcore punk scene in the bohemian enclave along Melrose Avenue. A veteran of the New York stage and late nights at Hollywood’s hipster hangouts, Nurmi would eventually be linked to Elvis, Orson Welles, and James Dean, as well as stylist and photographer Rudi Gernreich, founder of the Mattachine Society and designer of the thong. Thanks to rumors of a romance between Vampira and James Dean, his tragic death inspired the circulation of stories that she had cursed him and, better yet, had access to his dead body for use in her dark arts.
In Poole’s expert hands, Vampira is more than the story of a highly creative artist continually reinventing herself, but a parable of the runaway housewife bursting the bounds of our straight-laced conventions with an exuberant display of camp, sex, and creative individuality that owed something to the morbid New Yorker cartoons of Charles Addams, the evil queen from Disney’s Snow White, and the popular, underground bondage magazine Bizarre, and forward to the staged excesses of Madonna and Lady Gaga. Vampira is a wildly compelling tour through a forgotten piece of pop cultural history, one with both cultish and literary merit, sure to capture the imagination of Vampira fans new and old.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 获奖历史学家W. Scott Poole的最新图书是一部充满智慧的有关流行文化的作品，详细记录了恐怖人物万佩儿的故事，实际上还讲述了有关20世纪50年代的美国、女人以及性有关的故事，并描绘了洛杉矶的迷人历史。
本书中，作者描绘了将自己塑造成万佩儿的舞者、脱衣舞娘、演员、艺术家Maila Nurmi丰富多彩的人生。作为纽约舞台及好莱坞夜生活的活跃分子，Nurmi最终与猫王、奥森•威尔斯、詹姆斯•迪恩、造型师及摄影师鲁迪•葛雷奇等人的名字联系在了一起。她曾经与詹姆斯•迪恩传过绯闻，因此，传闻说詹姆斯•迪恩的死亡与她的诅咒有关，更有甚者说她将迪恩的尸身用在了自己的暗黑艺术之中。
作者通过其专业的写作手法，不仅讲述了这位具有创造性的艺术家的故事，还描绘了一个关于T台家庭主妇挣脱传统束缚，演绎了包括Charles Addams《纽约客》的病态卡通形象、迪士尼《白雪公主》的邪恶王后等丰富多彩的形象的寓言故事。她可以说是麦当娜、Lady Gaga等后来的舞台表演的先驱。
本书将带领读者尽情徜徉在一段被遗忘的流行文化历史之中，全书语言极具文学性，定能满足新老万佩儿爱好者的想象。（LYR）
Awards/获奖情况：本书获得了大量的评论、文章、引用和推荐。
“一直被模仿，从未被超越的Nurmi虽然最后陷入贫困，并被世人所遗忘。但她的创作所激起的反响最终在经济和文化方面都结出了胜利的果实。终于，Poole深情款款地替万佩儿正名了。” ★ Booklist
“W. Scott Poole的上一部作品《美国怪物（Monsters in America）》是一部有关文化历史的精彩之作：机智、幽默、极具颠覆性又非常有趣。他展现出了一种特别的天赋：用戏谑的口吻讲述严肃的历史。他的新书则更加精彩。Maila Nurmi，深夜电视女主持万佩儿的人生本就是一个伟大而神奇的故事，但Poole依然借此探讨了我们对性、死亡、恐惧和差异的态度。‘恐怖女士’曾经在20世纪50年代红极一时，她也是一个连接坡和哥特的显著标志。她像自由女神像一样代表了美国。”——Christopher Bram，畅销书作者
Tons of Reviews, Articles, Quotes, Endorsements
“Pop culture critic Poole sure knows a monster when he sees one. He continues his macrocultural exegesis in this microquasibiography and cultural (especially the 1950s) explication of TV’s first and most revelatory horror host…This stone-cold winner belongs in every American studies collection.”
★ Library Journal
“Often imitated but never equaled, Nurmi sunk into poverty and obscurity while the reverberations of her creation reaped financial and cultural success. Finally, Poole lovingly gives Vampira her due.” ★ Booklist
"Scott Poole has the chops, the Hollywood savvy, and the horror genre’s insider smarts to write a killer book on Vampira. I’ll be first in line to grab a copy." — Jonathan Maberry, multiple Bram Stoker Award winner and New York Times bestselling author of Assassin’s Code and Dust & Decay.
"Horror hostess, bondage goddess, Charles Addams cartoon comes to life, Vampire was every first-generation fanboy’s wet dream. Scott Poole takes us on an unforgettable ride through the overlapping underworlds of B&D magazines, Hollywood noir, and early political liberation movements that inspired actress Maila Nurmi to challenge a postwar culture bent on stifling women’s choices, bodies, and desires. This book is a subversive masterpiece." -- Sheri Holman, author of Witches on the Road Tonight and The Dress Lodger.
“W. Scott Poole’s last book, Monsters in America, was a dazzling work of cultural history: smart, funny, subversive and wildly entertaining. He showed a special gift for playfully saying serious things. His new book is even more wonderful. The life of Maila Nurmi, better known as the late-night TV hostess Vampira, is a great, strange story in itself, but also allows Poole to explore our attitudes about sex, death, fear, and difference. ‘The Lady of Horror’ was famous in the 1950s, but she is a remarkable symbol who connects backward to Poe and forward to Goth. She is as American as the Statue of Liberty.”—Christopher Bram, author of Gods and Monsters and Eminent Outlaws: The Gay Writers Who Changed America
“Vampira is up there with Vincent Price for lovers of the macabre, an icon whose shadow and influence lingers long after death. She’s not only important to modern children of the night for being the first TV horror host, but as the original ‘Glamour Ghoul,’ whose style has inspired generations of Goth Girls to adopt the sexy undead look as their own. But there is more to her story than her ability to look good screaming, and Scott Poole, whose writing on the dark side of popular culture has proven to be some of the smartest, sassiest com-mentary on American society around, is the man to tell it.”—Liisa Ladouceur, author of Encyclopedia Gothica
About the Author/作者介绍： W. Scott Poole，任教于查尔斯顿学院，写作了大量有关美国历史、恐怖片、流行文化的作品，包括最近出版的获奖历史作品《美国怪物》。Poole长期为《Popmatters》供稿，作品还多见于《赫芬顿邮报》《Religions Dispatches》等报刊。他是Authors@Google的客座演讲人，并为History Channel、PBS等合作制作电影。他在其个人网站monstersinamerica.com上撰写博客。
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