A bumper crop of bizarrerie for the casual fan and the scholar.
Vampires continue to be an important fixture on the cultural landscape, and no wonder.
With their radical sexuality that obeys neither natural nor man-made laws, they're as timely today as ever. The fearful resonances of blood as a result of diseases like AIDS has also buttressed their standing as very contemporary monsters. In the present climate, it's better to have our vampires between the pages of a book than lurking outside our window. J. Gordon Melton's book obligingly puts them there in this comprehensive, reasonably useful compendium of every kind of vampire movie imaginable. Melton's setup is based on a kind of grid that's present in other VideoHound books.