Anne Billson is a film critic, journalist, novelist and photographer. In 1993 she was named one of Granta's 'Best Young British Novelists'. She is a regular contributor to, amongst other publications, The Guardian and has written a number of works of fiction and non-fiction, including a highly acclaimed vampire novel Suckers and a volume in the BFI Modern Classics series on John Carpenter's The Thing. She blogs on film at multiglom.com

This is a concise but penetrating volume on one of the most influential Swedish films in some considerable time; the intriguing analysis of Tomas Alfredson's Let The Right One may be delivered within only a hundred or so pages, but Billson still produces a remarkable number of aperçus on this highly influential adaptation of John Ajvide Lindqvist's remarkable novel. (Crime Time) Anne Billson offers an accessible, lively but thoughtful take on the '80s-set Swedish vampire belter... a fun, stimulating exploration of a modern masterpiece. (Empire) ...informative and eminently readable, hitting just the right note of intellectual engagement ... any vampire film aficionado will be able to revisit Let the Right One In with new eyes and appreciate so much more after reading [Anne Billson's] assessment of its undoubted merits. (Black Static)

• Introduction'Be Me, for a Little While'Textual AnalysisThe Other Swedish Vampire MovieThe Vampire's ArrivalMeeting the VampireThe Vampire as Serial KillerThe Vampire as MetaphorSex and the VampireBecoming a VampireThe Vampire's LifestyleThe Vampire's NemesisThe Vampire's AssistantVampire RulesThe Vampire's Departure

Anne Billson is a film critic, journalist, novelist and photographer. In 1993 she was named one of Granta's 'Best Young British Novelists'. She is a regular contributor to, amongst other publications, The Guardian and has written a number of works of fiction and non-fiction, including a highly acclaimed vampire novel Suckers and a volume in the BFI Modern Classics series on John Carpenter's The Thing. She blogs on film at multiglom.com

This is a concise but penetrating volume on one of the most influential Swedish films in some considerable time; the intriguing analysis of Tomas Alfredson's Let The Right One may be delivered within only a hundred or so pages, but Billson still produces a remarkable number of aperçus on this highly influential adaptation of John Ajvide Lindqvist's remarkable novel. (Crime Time) Anne Billson offers an accessible, lively but thoughtful take on the '80s-set Swedish vampire belter... a fun, stimulating exploration of a modern masterpiece. (Empire) ...informative and eminently readable, hitting just the right note of intellectual engagement ... any vampire film aficionado will be able to revisit Let the Right One In with new eyes and appreciate so much more after reading [Anne Billson's] assessment of its undoubted merits. (Black Static)

• Introduction'Be Me, for a Little While'Textual AnalysisThe Other Swedish Vampire MovieThe Vampire's ArrivalMeeting the VampireThe Vampire as Serial KillerThe Vampire as MetaphorSex and the VampireBecoming a VampireThe Vampire's LifestyleThe Vampire's NemesisThe Vampire's AssistantVampire RulesThe Vampire's Departure

Anne Billson is a film critic, journalist, novelist and photographer. In 1993 she was named one of Granta's 'Best Young British Novelists'. She is a regular contributor to, amongst other publications, The Guardian and has written a number of works of fiction and non-fiction, including a highly acclaimed vampire novel Suckers and a volume in the BFI Modern Classics series on John Carpenter's The Thing. She blogs on film at multiglom.com

This is a concise but penetrating volume on one of the most influential Swedish films in some considerable time; the intriguing analysis of Tomas Alfredson's Let The Right One may be delivered within only a hundred or so pages, but Billson still produces a remarkable number of aperçus on this highly influential adaptation of John Ajvide Lindqvist's remarkable novel. (Crime Time) Anne Billson offers an accessible, lively but thoughtful take on the '80s-set Swedish vampire belter... a fun, stimulating exploration of a modern masterpiece. (Empire) ...informative and eminently readable, hitting just the right note of intellectual engagement ... any vampire film aficionado will be able to revisit Let the Right One In with new eyes and appreciate so much more after reading [Anne Billson's] assessment of its undoubted merits. (Black Static)

• Introduction'Be Me, for a Little While'Textual AnalysisThe Other Swedish Vampire MovieThe Vampire's ArrivalMeeting the VampireThe Vampire as Serial KillerThe Vampire as MetaphorSex and the VampireBecoming a VampireThe Vampire's LifestyleThe Vampire's NemesisThe Vampire's AssistantVampire RulesThe Vampire's Departure