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Literature
[edit]Author | Year | Title | Synopsis |
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Thomas Middleton | 1605 | A Mad World, My Masters | The philandering Master Penitent Brothel is tempted by a succubus assuming the form of his illicit partner, using song and dance in a failed attempt to seduce him. |
Honoré de Balzac | Early 1800s | "The Succubus" | Concerns a 1271 trial of a she-devil succubus in the guise of a woman, who, amongst other things, could use her hair to entangle victims.[1] |
Charles Williams | 1937 | Descent into Hell | Portrays an academic who consciously rejects the potential affections of a real woman in favor of a physically identical but perfectly obedient and pliable succubus. |
Richard Matheson | 1962 | "The Likeness of Julie" | Portrays a teenage succubus named Julie (later adapted into TV film Trilogy of Terror). |
Poul Anderson | 1971 | Operation Chaos | The protagonists are visited shortly after being married by a succubus/incubus who changes genders in its attempts to seduce both of them. |
Stephen King | 1982–2012 | The Dark Tower | Roland encounters a succubus in a circle of stones while following the man in black. This succubus then later helps an incubus in impregnating Susanna Dean with Roland's child, Mordred, a villain in later books. |
Toni Morrison | 1987 | Beloved | The novel's protagonist, Beloved, has been discussed in academic works as a modern use of this theme.[2][3] |
Piers Anthony | 1988 | For Love of Evil | Succubi, including Lilith, make up the Kingdom of Hell, which reflects Dante's 7 Circles of Hell. |
Terry Pratchett | 1990 | Eric | Has a small reference to succubi in which a demonologist describes how his grandfather spent his entire life trying to summon one only to succeed in conjuring a Neuralger, a female demon that has a headache every night. |
Laurell K. Hamilton | 1993 | Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter | The main character, Anita Blake, finds herself becoming a succubus. |
Orson Scott Card | 1996 | Treasure Box | A witch conjures a succubus who represents the dreams and desires of the protagonist in order to convince him to open a mysterious box. |
Jim Butcher | 2000 | Dresden Files series | The White Court of vampires are described as succubi and incubi. One of these incubi is the major supporting character Thomas Raith. |
Jonathan Stroud | 2003 | Bartimaeus Trilogy | Describes a succubus as a kind of demon preferred by male magicians, and also that Mr. Tallow might be the offspring of a magician and a succubus. |
Jaq D. Hawkins | 2005 | Dance of the Goblins | The Goblin female Talla revives the tradition of the succubus among goblins. The theme is carried on through the rest of the series, Demoniac Dance and Power of the Dance. |
Mike Carey | 2006 | Felix Castor series | Features a succubus who takes the name Juliet, gives up feeding on men and enters into a lesbian relationship whilst working as an exorcist. |
Jackie Kessler | 2007 | Hell on Earth | A dark paranormal series starring the succubus Jezebel, who runs away from Hell, hides on Earth as an exotic dancer, and learns the hard way about being mortal. |
Richelle Mead | 2009 or earlier | Georgina Kincaid | A 21st-century urban fantasy novel series featuring succubus Georgina Kincaid trying to find a vampire hunter. |
Jess C Scott | 2012 | Naked Heat | Acollection of incubus and succubus stories. "Tongue-Tied" features a voyeuristic lesbian succubus, and "Kylie" features a cougar succubus who gets involved in a complicated love quadrangle. |
- ^ Balzac, Honoré de. "The Succubus"
- ^ "Figurations of Rape and the Supernatural in Beloved" by Pamela E. Barnett. PMLA, Vol. 112, No. 3 (May 1997), pp. 418-427 JSTOR
- ^ "Utopias Limited: Post-sixties and Postmodern American Fiction" by DeKoven, Marianne. MFS Modern Fiction Studies - Volume 41, Number 1, Spring 1995, pp. 75-97 MUSE "Sethe's miraculous milk drains off into the succubus Beloved has become ."