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Vampires, Burial, and Death: Folklore and Reality; With a New Preface
Paul Barber
Vampires, Burial, and Death: Folklore and Reality; With a New Preface
Paul Barber
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.
244 pages, ill
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | April 20, 2010 |
ISBN13 | 9780300164817 |
Publishers | Yale University Press |
Pages | 256 |
Dimensions | 158 × 234 × 18 mm · 376 g |
Language | English |