Slayers and their vampires
Subtitle: a cultural history of killing the dead
By: Bruce A. McClelland.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780472099238; 9780472069231
Subjects: Vampires -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Back from the dead : monsters and violence; title: Conversion in the Balkans : a thousand years of the vampire; title: Scapegoats and demons : a thousand years of the vampire, continued; title: Into the West : from folklore to literature; title: Seers and slayers; title: Seeing the dead; title: The rational slayer; title: From Vienna to London; title: The slayer generation.