Review: Abigail

In Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula, the titular vampire’s victims were initially and primarily women. The bites and the blood were metaphors for sexual awakening, and the femmes who fell to the monster’s fangs howled about being forever damned as “unclean” after they’d been bitten by the big D. Abigail stands the fallen-woman trope on […]
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