Chapter 16 - ‘The Vampyre of Time and Memory’: Vampirism and Trauma in Tana French’s In the Woods

This is a peer-reviewed chapter published in the academic collection Disability, Illness, and the Vampire in Literature and Culture, edited by Drumlin Crape and Brooke Cameron. The book as a whole examines how disability is represented in vampire stories and how the vampire disrupts ideas of the “normal human body.” My chapter argues that we can read PTSD as vampiric in a novel that does not feature a traditional, supernatural vampire.