The vampire book : the encyclopedia of the undead / J. Gordon Melton.
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.
Record details
- ISBN: 157859281X
- ISBN: 9781578592814
- Physical Description: xxxiii, 909 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition: Third edition.
- Publisher: Canton, MI : Visible Ink Press, [2011]
- Copyright: ©2011
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Subject: | Vampire films > History and criticism. Vampires in literature. Vampires > Encyclopedias. |
Genre: | Criticism, interpretation, etc. Encyclopedias. |
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- 9 of 9 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Pulaski County.
- 1 of 1 copy available at Pulaski County Library-Waynesville. (Show preferred library)
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Pulaski County Library-Waynesville | YA 398.21 Mel (Text) | 33642000399550 | YA Nonfiction | Available | - |
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The Vampire Book : The Encyclopedia of the Undead
The Ultimate Collection of Vampire Facts and Fiction From Vlad the Impaler to Barnabas Collins to Edward Cullen to Dracula and Bill Compton, renowned religion expert and fearless vampire authority J. Gordon Melton, PhD takes the reader on a vast, alphabetic tour of the psychosexual, macabre world of the blood-sucking undead. Digging deep into the lore, myths, pop culture, and reported realities of vampires and vampire legends from across the globe, The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead exposes everything about the blood thirsty predator. Death and immortality, sexual prowess and surrender, intimacy and alienation, rebellion and temptation. The allure of the vampire is eternal, and The Vampire Book explores it all. 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 Transylvania to plague-infested Europe to Nostradamus and from modern literature to movies and TV series, this exhaustive guide furnishes more than 500 essays to quench your thirst for facts, biographies, definitions, and more.