The Secret History of Vampires: Their Multiple Forms and Hidden Purposes

by Claude Lecouteux

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Of all forms taken by the undead, the vampire wields the most powerful pull on the modern imagination. But the countless movies and books inspired by this child of the night who has a predilection for human blood are based on incidents recorded as fact in newspapers and judicial archives in the centuries preceding the works of Bram Stoker and other writers. Digging through these forgotten records, Claude Lecouteux unearths a very different figure of the vampire in the many accounts of individuals who reportedly would return from their graves to attack the living. These ancestors of the modern...Read more
  • ISBN10 1594773254
  • ISBN13 9781594773259
  • Publish Date 1 February 2010
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Inner Traditions Bear and Company
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 200
  • Language English