Written in blood
Subtitle: a cultural history of the British vampire
By: Paul Adams
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780752497150; 9780750957458
Subjects: Vampires; History; Vampires in literature; Vampires in mass media; Vampire films; History and criticism; Literature
Description: Vampires, chilling supernatural creatures of the night - do they really exist? The British Isles has a remarkable association with the realms of the undead, from the nineteenth-century world of Croglin Grange, Varney the Vampire and Stoker's Dracula, through to Hammer Films and the modern phenomenon of the Highgate Vampire. In this new and thought-provoking book, illustrated with many never before seen photographs and drawing on extensive original research, paranormal historian Paul Adams joins writer and ghost-hunter Peter Underwood in a detailed and fascinating exploration of the history of British vampirism in both fact and fiction; a modern guide where every page is truly written in blood.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-209) and index.
Table of contents: title: Gothic beginnings and Victorian vampires (1816-1873); title: The Beast of Croglin Grange and other strange happenings (1100s-Present); title: Bram Stoker: A benchmark in blood (1847-1912); title: The undead in Britain: Vampire fiction before and after the First World War (1890s-1940); title: The vampire murderers (1920s-2012); title: The mysterious world of Montague Summers (1880-1948); title: A silver scream: The road to British vampire cinema (1921-1955); title: Lord of Misrule: The rise and fall of Hammer's Dracula (1956-1974); title: Sex and Blood: Hammer's legions and beyond (1970-1988); title: The strange story of the Highgate vampire (1965-Present); title: Undead television: Vampires in British Broadcasting (1968-2010); title: The music of the night (1960-2000); title: In the shadow of Stoker: Modern vampire literature (1975-2013).