Book of the vampire
By: Nigel Suckling
Publisher: Facts, Figures & Fun
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781904332824
Subjects: Vampires; Folklore; Vampires in literature; Vampires dans la littérature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-224).
Table of contents: title: I. Dracula's dynasty. Bram Stoker and the literary and cultural background of Dracula; title: The vampire in prose, poetry, and on stage during the nineteenth century; title: A brief history of Bram Stoker and the progress of his opus from book to stage and to silver screen; title: II. The ancient evil. The legends and folklore on vampires that Stoker drew upon for Dracula; title: The eighteenth century vampire plagues in Eastern Europe and what scholars made of them; title: How the ideas spread to the West; title: Premature burial and masticating dead; title: The spiritualist perspective.; title: III. Bloodlust. The mystical significance of blood in ancient and medieval times; title: The lamia, succubus, ghoul and other vampires in ancient Rome, Greece and the Middle East; title: Adam's first wife Lilith as a vampire; title: Parallels in other cultures; title: IV. Dracula, the Blood Countess and Bluebeard. History and legends of the original Prince Dracula, his kinswoman Countess Elisabeth Bathory of Hungary and Gilles de Retz; title: V. The un-living dead. Modern outbreaks of vampire hysteria; title: Real vampires in the past century.