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.
- ISBN10 0300041268
- ISBN13 9780300041262
- Publish Date 10 September 1988
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 7 April 1998
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Yale University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Language English