num_pages: 244
description: In this engrossing book, Paul Barber surveys centuries of folklore about vampires and offers the first scientific 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, his book is fascinating reading.
language: English
title: Vampires, Burial, and Death: Folklore and Reality
titlecomplete: Vampires, Burial, and Death: Folklore and Reality
genres: Anthropology, Reference, Death, Vampires, Nonfiction, Horror, Paranormal, Mythology, Folklore, History
ratings_count: 765
publisher: Yale University Press