Vampires, Burial, and Death

Paul Barber

Yale University Press, 2010

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Surveys centuries of folklore about vampires. This book offers an explanation for the origins of the vampire legends, from the tale of a sixteenth-century shoemaker from Breslau whose ghost terrorized everyone in the city, to the testimony of a doctor who presided over the exhumation and dissection of a graveyard full of Serbian vampires.

ISBN-13
9780300164817
ISBN-10
0300164815
Publisher
Yale University Press
Year
2010
Publication date
2010-04-20
Pages
256
Dimensions
234x158x18
Weight
398