The Universal Vampire: Origins and Evolution of a Legend

by Nancy Schumann

Book Overview

This book presents the vampire as a truly international phenomenon, not restricted to the original folk character, the literary vampire (such as Dracula), or 20th and 21st-century film versions. Instead, we find examples of vampires from literally around the world: each culture and age reshaping the legend in its own image and even seeking psychological and scientific explanations to explain the phenomenon.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611475805
• ISBN13: 9781611475807
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"