Vampires are metaphors for many things, and in no place is this more true than in Rachel Klein's 2002 novel The Moth Diaries. In the pages of a journal written by a girl in the 1960s, the claustrophobia of a boarding school fuels the obssessions of teenage girls to gothic horror heights. Whether you believe this is a story about vampires or not, this YA novel (and sleek update of Carmilla with a heavy dose of Dracula) is worth looking at for its insights into teenage girls - not to mention a vampire tale focussed on Jewish (and not Christian) identity.

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