Author: Rita Golden Gelman
Publisher: Apple
ISBN: 9780590443029
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Argues that people have used their imagination to transform frightening bumps in the night and mysterious phenomena into such night-stalking characters as werewolves and vampires.
Vampires and Other Creatures of the Night
Author: Rita Golden Gelman
Publisher: Apple
ISBN: 9780590443029
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Argues that people have used their imagination to transform frightening bumps in the night and mysterious phenomena into such night-stalking characters as werewolves and vampires.
Publisher: Apple
ISBN: 9780590443029
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Argues that people have used their imagination to transform frightening bumps in the night and mysterious phenomena into such night-stalking characters as werewolves and vampires.
Banshees, Werewolves, Vampires, and Other Creatures of the Night
Author: Varla A. Ventura
Publisher: Weiser Books
ISBN: 1609259114
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
The lusty vampire, the sympathetic werewolf, the tragic banshee are just a few of the dark and frightening creatures you'll discover in Banshees, Werewolves, Vampires, and Other Creatures of the Night. Huffington Post Weird News columnist and author Varla Ventura takes readers on a wild ride through the shadowy hills of rural Ireland, the dark German forests, and along abandoned farms and country roads across the world to discover some of the most frightening and freaktacular tales, tidbits, and encounters with all those beasties that go bump in the night. Along with classic pieces from Bram Stoker, Elliot O'Donnell, Sabine BaringGould, William Butler Yeats and many others, Ventura includes: • Famous vampires you may not know • The identity of the author of the first English vampire novel (and his relationship to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein) • Excerpts from the first psychic vampire novel ever written • Stories of 19th century werewolf hunters • Why banshees are the most feared of supernatural creatures
Publisher: Weiser Books
ISBN: 1609259114
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
The lusty vampire, the sympathetic werewolf, the tragic banshee are just a few of the dark and frightening creatures you'll discover in Banshees, Werewolves, Vampires, and Other Creatures of the Night. Huffington Post Weird News columnist and author Varla Ventura takes readers on a wild ride through the shadowy hills of rural Ireland, the dark German forests, and along abandoned farms and country roads across the world to discover some of the most frightening and freaktacular tales, tidbits, and encounters with all those beasties that go bump in the night. Along with classic pieces from Bram Stoker, Elliot O'Donnell, Sabine BaringGould, William Butler Yeats and many others, Ventura includes: • Famous vampires you may not know • The identity of the author of the first English vampire novel (and his relationship to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein) • Excerpts from the first psychic vampire novel ever written • Stories of 19th century werewolf hunters • Why banshees are the most feared of supernatural creatures
Creatures of the Night
Author: Gregory L. Reece
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857730428
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Vampires and werewolves; phantoms and phantasms: looming out of the fog leaps the menacing spectre of the lycanthrope, ghoul or blood-crazed zombie. Intrigued by some of the most sinister, yet at the same time most compelling, legends of western civilization, Gregory L Reece dusts down his stake and crucifix, loads his silver bullets and takes off into the wilds in search of answers and fresh adventures. Rummaging around in crumbling tombs and cobwebbed sarcophagi, his latest quest leads him into the haunted realm of the dead and the undead: of those carnivorous, nocturnal hunters that might perhaps better be left undisturbed. Why, he asks, is our culture obsessed by the eerie and the macabre? Why, despite its horrors, does the 'dark side' of the supernatural - its seances and ghost-hunting, demonic possession and the occult - call to us with such dangerous allure? Whether tracking night-stalking werewolves, chanting black magic mantras with Satanists, or interviewing a funereal modern-day Count Dracula, Reece is determined to uncover the truth. A wry exploration of a secret and secretive subculture, "Creatures of the Night" is at the same time a bold and startling journey into a wraithlike world that has so often seemed to lie beyond the limits of rational comprehension - until now.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0857730428
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Vampires and werewolves; phantoms and phantasms: looming out of the fog leaps the menacing spectre of the lycanthrope, ghoul or blood-crazed zombie. Intrigued by some of the most sinister, yet at the same time most compelling, legends of western civilization, Gregory L Reece dusts down his stake and crucifix, loads his silver bullets and takes off into the wilds in search of answers and fresh adventures. Rummaging around in crumbling tombs and cobwebbed sarcophagi, his latest quest leads him into the haunted realm of the dead and the undead: of those carnivorous, nocturnal hunters that might perhaps better be left undisturbed. Why, he asks, is our culture obsessed by the eerie and the macabre? Why, despite its horrors, does the 'dark side' of the supernatural - its seances and ghost-hunting, demonic possession and the occult - call to us with such dangerous allure? Whether tracking night-stalking werewolves, chanting black magic mantras with Satanists, or interviewing a funereal modern-day Count Dracula, Reece is determined to uncover the truth. A wry exploration of a secret and secretive subculture, "Creatures of the Night" is at the same time a bold and startling journey into a wraithlike world that has so often seemed to lie beyond the limits of rational comprehension - until now.
Vampires and Other Monstrous Creatures
Author: Julius Pemberton-Smythe
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780061454127
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
No vampire hunter should be without this guide--the very handbook that Dr. Cornelius Van Helsing himself carried to Transylvania. It includes firsthand, practical advice on how to handle vampires and other creatures of the night, from banshees to zombies. Illustrations.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780061454127
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
No vampire hunter should be without this guide--the very handbook that Dr. Cornelius Van Helsing himself carried to Transylvania. It includes firsthand, practical advice on how to handle vampires and other creatures of the night, from banshees to zombies. Illustrations.
Drawing Vampires
Author: Christopher Hart
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781933027814
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Provides step-by-step instructions for drawing different types of vampires, gothic action poses, and monstrous vampiric creatures.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781933027814
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Provides step-by-step instructions for drawing different types of vampires, gothic action poses, and monstrous vampiric creatures.
God's Ghostbusters
Author: Thomas Horn
Publisher: Anomalos Publishing
ISBN: 9780983621652
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Recently some 300 exorcists flocked to Poland for a week-long congress to examine the current fashion for vampirism the world-over and the apparent connection between this fascination and a surge in demonic possession. This comes as the world is experiencing an explosion of ancient occultism combined with wicked fascination for ghosts and all things paranormal. In the United States alone, there are now more than two hundred thousand registered witches and as many as 8 million unregistered practitioners of “the craft.” On college and high school campuses, vampires, werewolves, and other “creatures of the night” are esteemed as objects of desire and idolized by young men and women who view them as cult icons of envious mystical power. Church goers are enchanted by the darkness as well. An April 13, 2011 article “Mysticism Infecting Nazarene Beliefs” was preceded only a few days before by a Telegraph article describing how a “surge in Satanism” inside the church has sparked a “rise in demand for exorcists” within traditional religious settings.” Why is this happening now? God’s Ghostbusters provides shocking answers in this collaborative work by Gary Bates, Chuck Missler, Gary Stearman, Thomas Horn, Nita Horn, Russ Dizdar, Donna Howell, Derek Gilbert, Sharon Gilbert, Michael Hoggard, Noah Hutchings, Terry James, John McTernan, Jeff Patty, Fred DeRuvo, and Douglas Woodward.
Publisher: Anomalos Publishing
ISBN: 9780983621652
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Recently some 300 exorcists flocked to Poland for a week-long congress to examine the current fashion for vampirism the world-over and the apparent connection between this fascination and a surge in demonic possession. This comes as the world is experiencing an explosion of ancient occultism combined with wicked fascination for ghosts and all things paranormal. In the United States alone, there are now more than two hundred thousand registered witches and as many as 8 million unregistered practitioners of “the craft.” On college and high school campuses, vampires, werewolves, and other “creatures of the night” are esteemed as objects of desire and idolized by young men and women who view them as cult icons of envious mystical power. Church goers are enchanted by the darkness as well. An April 13, 2011 article “Mysticism Infecting Nazarene Beliefs” was preceded only a few days before by a Telegraph article describing how a “surge in Satanism” inside the church has sparked a “rise in demand for exorcists” within traditional religious settings.” Why is this happening now? God’s Ghostbusters provides shocking answers in this collaborative work by Gary Bates, Chuck Missler, Gary Stearman, Thomas Horn, Nita Horn, Russ Dizdar, Donna Howell, Derek Gilbert, Sharon Gilbert, Michael Hoggard, Noah Hutchings, Terry James, John McTernan, Jeff Patty, Fred DeRuvo, and Douglas Woodward.
Real Vampires, Night Stalkers and Creatures from the Darkside
Author: Brad Steiger
Publisher: Visible Ink Press
ISBN: 1578592860
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Not only do vampires exist, but they walk among us! Paranormal researcher extraordinaire and author of hundreds of books on the mysterious and unknown, Brad Steiger, reveals that real vampires are not immortal, do not have fangs or sleep in coffins, and have no fear of sunlight or crucifixes. A chilling chronicle of the often-ignored history of vampirism, Real Vampires, Night Stalkers, and Creatures from the Darkside is a shocking account of occultist rituals and the inhuman forces that influence these immortal beasts. From spine-tingling classic tales—Vlad the Impaler, the Countess of Blood—to stories of famous mass-murderers and their shocking, cannibalistic, and vampire-like behavior—Jack the Ripper, the Zodiac Killer, Jeffrey Dahmer—to hair-raising testimony from ordinary people who’ve encountered vampires, and finally to interviews with modern vampires themselves, this frightening collection covers them all. Not for the faint of heart, you’ll encounter 163 terrifying tales of the hideous wraiths and creatures that lurk in shadow, including . . . the Mexican prostitute who mesmerized an entire village, convincing them she was an Incan goddess who required human sacrifice for her magic. the three teenagers who left a trail across the South as they conducted blood-drinking rituals with animals. the mysterious Lady in Black, who draws psychic energy from men who dare approach her as she wanders through city streets and parks. the young bride-to-be possessed by an evil spirit pretending to be her recently deceased uncle. the college student who thought that he had gotten lucky when he was invited to a party by a gorgeous woman—until he found out that the other partygoers seemed to want blood in return for their beer. Shining a light on the horrifying truth, Real Vampires, Night Stalkers, and Creatures from the Darkside dispels many myths but also confirms the truth behind several traits of real vampires. You’ll encounter loathsome slashers, rippers, and murderers who do not promise immortality with their “bite,” only a painful death. The numerous photos and illustrations bring the text to life!
Publisher: Visible Ink Press
ISBN: 1578592860
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Not only do vampires exist, but they walk among us! Paranormal researcher extraordinaire and author of hundreds of books on the mysterious and unknown, Brad Steiger, reveals that real vampires are not immortal, do not have fangs or sleep in coffins, and have no fear of sunlight or crucifixes. A chilling chronicle of the often-ignored history of vampirism, Real Vampires, Night Stalkers, and Creatures from the Darkside is a shocking account of occultist rituals and the inhuman forces that influence these immortal beasts. From spine-tingling classic tales—Vlad the Impaler, the Countess of Blood—to stories of famous mass-murderers and their shocking, cannibalistic, and vampire-like behavior—Jack the Ripper, the Zodiac Killer, Jeffrey Dahmer—to hair-raising testimony from ordinary people who’ve encountered vampires, and finally to interviews with modern vampires themselves, this frightening collection covers them all. Not for the faint of heart, you’ll encounter 163 terrifying tales of the hideous wraiths and creatures that lurk in shadow, including . . . the Mexican prostitute who mesmerized an entire village, convincing them she was an Incan goddess who required human sacrifice for her magic. the three teenagers who left a trail across the South as they conducted blood-drinking rituals with animals. the mysterious Lady in Black, who draws psychic energy from men who dare approach her as she wanders through city streets and parks. the young bride-to-be possessed by an evil spirit pretending to be her recently deceased uncle. the college student who thought that he had gotten lucky when he was invited to a party by a gorgeous woman—until he found out that the other partygoers seemed to want blood in return for their beer. Shining a light on the horrifying truth, Real Vampires, Night Stalkers, and Creatures from the Darkside dispels many myths but also confirms the truth behind several traits of real vampires. You’ll encounter loathsome slashers, rippers, and murderers who do not promise immortality with their “bite,” only a painful death. The numerous photos and illustrations bring the text to life!
Vampires and Other Bloodsuckers
Author: Ruth Owen
Publisher: Bearport Publishing
ISBN: 1617727229
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Looks at the history of vampire lore, famous vampires, and possible explanations.
Publisher: Bearport Publishing
ISBN: 1617727229
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Looks at the history of vampire lore, famous vampires, and possible explanations.
The Vampire's Fall
Author: Elizabeth Duivenvoorde
Publisher: Elizabeth Duivenvoorde
ISBN: 9781777292928
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Trigger Warnings: Contains violence, blood and gore, sexual content, coarse language.
Publisher: Elizabeth Duivenvoorde
ISBN: 9781777292928
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Trigger Warnings: Contains violence, blood and gore, sexual content, coarse language.
Vampires
Author: Jean Marigny
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 9780500300411
Category : Dracula, Count (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
The nightmare of the dead rising from their graves and sucking the blood of the living has haunted us since prehistory. Legends, literature and terrifying case histories trace the survival of vampires from antiquity to the gaslit streets of London. From age to age, the same terrifying myth has adapted itself to the beliefs of the time. Today it is kept alive through fiction and the cinema, which have distilled our worst fears and most secret desires. The world of the undead lives on.
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
ISBN: 9780500300411
Category : Dracula, Count (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
The nightmare of the dead rising from their graves and sucking the blood of the living has haunted us since prehistory. Legends, literature and terrifying case histories trace the survival of vampires from antiquity to the gaslit streets of London. From age to age, the same terrifying myth has adapted itself to the beliefs of the time. Today it is kept alive through fiction and the cinema, which have distilled our worst fears and most secret desires. The world of the undead lives on.