Book

The vampire book : the encyclopedia of the undead / J. Gordon Melton.

ISBN: 157859281X
ISBN: 9781578592814
Physical Description: xxxiii, 909 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Edition: Third edition.
Publisher: Canton, MI : Visible Ink Press, [2011]
Copyright: &copy;2011

Summary:

Explores the myth, lore, and representation in popular culture of vampires and vampire legends from around the globe. Death and immortality, sexual prowess and surrender, intimacy and alienation, rebellion and temptation. The allure of the vampire is eternal. The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead, Third edition, explores the historical, literary, mythological, biographical, and popular aspects of one of the world's most mesmerizing paranormal subject. This vast reference is an alphabetical tour of the psychosexual, macabre world of the soul-sucking undead. In the first fully revised and updated edition in a decade, Dr. J. Gordon Melton (president of the American chapter of the Transylvania Society of Dracula) bites even deeper into vampire lore, myths, reported realities, and legends that come from all around the world. From Vlad the Impaler to Dracula and from modern literature to movies and TV series like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, True Blood, Twilight, and The Vampire Lestat, this exhaustive guide furnishes more than 400 essays to quench your thirst for facts, biographies, definitions, and more.