Book of the vampire /
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London :
Facts, Figures & Fun,
2008.
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Table of Contents:
- I. Dracula's dynasty. Bram Stoker and the literary and cultural background of Dracula
- The vampire in prose, poetry, and on stage during the nineteenth century
- A brief history of Bram Stoker and the progress of his opus from book to stage and to silver screen
- II. The ancient evil. The legends and folklore on vampires that Stoker drew upon for Dracula
- The eighteenth century vampire plagues in Eastern Europe and what scholars made of them
- How the ideas spread to the West
- Premature burial and masticating dead
- The spiritualist perspective.
- III. Bloodlust. The mystical significance of blood in ancient and medieval times
- The lamia, succubus, ghoul and other vampires in ancient Rome, Greece and the Middle East
- Adam's first wife Lilith as a vampire
- Parallels in other cultures
- IV. Dracula, the Blood Countess and Bluebeard. History and legends of the original Prince Dracula, his kinswoman Countess Elisabeth Bathory of Hungary and Gilles de Retz
- V. The un-living dead. Modern outbreaks of vampire hysteria
- Real vampires in the past century.