In his 2015 translation of that novel, Lyon discusses Serbian vampire folklore in detail, and many of the details he discusses he also uses in Kiss of the Butterfly. After Ninety Years was first published in 1880, seventeen years before Dracula was published. Lyon is also the translator of the novel After Ninety Years: The Story of Serbian Vampire Sava Savanovic, which has previously been discussed on this blog. Its author did impeccable research into vampire folklore, not relying solely on how vampires are depicted in films or even in the novel Dracula and all the vampire fiction that has followed its 1897 publication, but by digging into the true legends of vampires in the Balkans. James Lyon’s 2013 novel Kiss of the Butterfly is one of the best vampire novels written in recent years. Kiss of the Butterfly delves into Balkan vampire folklore to create a satisfying and fast-paced vampire tale.
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