Author: Kathryn Harkup
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
ISBN: 1839161574
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Our fascination with the vampire myth has scarcely diminished since Bram Stoker's publication of the classic Dracula tale in 1897, but how much of the lore is based in fact and can science explain the origins of horror's most famous fiend? Vampirology charts the murky waters of the vampire myth - from stories found in many cultures across the globe to our sympathetic pop-culture renditions today - to investigate how a scientific interpretation may shed light on the fears and phenomena of the vampire myth.
Vampirology
Author: Kathryn Harkup
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
ISBN: 1839161574
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Our fascination with the vampire myth has scarcely diminished since Bram Stoker's publication of the classic Dracula tale in 1897, but how much of the lore is based in fact and can science explain the origins of horror's most famous fiend? Vampirology charts the murky waters of the vampire myth - from stories found in many cultures across the globe to our sympathetic pop-culture renditions today - to investigate how a scientific interpretation may shed light on the fears and phenomena of the vampire myth.
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
ISBN: 1839161574
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
Our fascination with the vampire myth has scarcely diminished since Bram Stoker's publication of the classic Dracula tale in 1897, but how much of the lore is based in fact and can science explain the origins of horror's most famous fiend? Vampirology charts the murky waters of the vampire myth - from stories found in many cultures across the globe to our sympathetic pop-culture renditions today - to investigate how a scientific interpretation may shed light on the fears and phenomena of the vampire myth.
Vampireology
Author: Nick Holt
Publisher: Ology
ISBN: 9781848776661
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
'Vampireology' reveals the history of vampires who have lived among us and preyed on humans since the beginning of time. Written in 1900 by the world's Protector, Archibald Brooks, the unpublished manuscript falls into the hands of our detective, Kraik, when Brooks is murdered in 1920. Kraik is given the task of publishing the book.
Publisher: Ology
ISBN: 9781848776661
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
'Vampireology' reveals the history of vampires who have lived among us and preyed on humans since the beginning of time. Written in 1900 by the world's Protector, Archibald Brooks, the unpublished manuscript falls into the hands of our detective, Kraik, when Brooks is murdered in 1920. Kraik is given the task of publishing the book.
Vampireology
Author: Nicky Raven
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
ISBN: 0763649147
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
This rich, mesmerizing resource, written in 1900, sheds light on three vampire bloodlines. Interspersed are booklets, flaps, and letters between a young paranormal researcher and an alluring woman who seeks his help. Consumable.
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
ISBN: 0763649147
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 31
Book Description
This rich, mesmerizing resource, written in 1900, sheds light on three vampire bloodlines. Interspersed are booklets, flaps, and letters between a young paranormal researcher and an alluring woman who seeks his help. Consumable.
Vampirology
Author: Scott Norman
Publisher: Scott Norman
ISBN: 9780982466674
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Steve Lehman has come across the find of a lifetime: a pair of vampire teeth. After ascertaining that his find is genuine, Steve goes about testing various vampire lore to discover what is fact and what is fiction. Through scientific tests, Steve creates a scientific journal with information confirming many vampire myths, dispelling others, and introducing new information about vampires as well. Throughout the testing process however, the vampires want to recover the teeth from Steve or see him dead; either will suffice. This is a conitnuation of the storyline from The Vampire Collector, which was reviewed as "Vampires for intellectuals."
Publisher: Scott Norman
ISBN: 9780982466674
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Steve Lehman has come across the find of a lifetime: a pair of vampire teeth. After ascertaining that his find is genuine, Steve goes about testing various vampire lore to discover what is fact and what is fiction. Through scientific tests, Steve creates a scientific journal with information confirming many vampire myths, dispelling others, and introducing new information about vampires as well. Throughout the testing process however, the vampires want to recover the teeth from Steve or see him dead; either will suffice. This is a conitnuation of the storyline from The Vampire Collector, which was reviewed as "Vampires for intellectuals."
Vampire Nation
Author: Toma Longinović
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822350394
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Analyzes how the rhetoric of Yugoslav intellectuals and politicians and the U.S.-led Western media and political leadership framed the serbs as metaphorical vampires in the last decades of the twentieth century.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822350394
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Analyzes how the rhetoric of Yugoslav intellectuals and politicians and the U.S.-led Western media and political leadership framed the serbs as metaphorical vampires in the last decades of the twentieth century.
The Vampire
Author: Nick Groom
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300240813
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
An authoritative new history of the vampire, two hundred years after it first appeared on the literary scene Published to mark the bicentenary of John Polidori’s publication of The Vampyre, Nick Groom’s detailed new account illuminates the complex history of the iconic creature. The vampire first came to public prominence in the early eighteenth century, when Enlightenment science collided with Eastern European folklore and apparently verified outbreaks of vampirism, capturing the attention of medical researchers, political commentators, social theorists, theologians, and philosophers. Groom accordingly traces the vampire from its role as a monster embodying humankind’s fears, to that of an unlikely hero for the marginalized and excluded in the twenty-first century. Drawing on literary and artistic representations, as well as medical, forensic, empirical, and sociopolitical perspectives, this rich and eerie history presents the vampire as a strikingly complex being that has been used to express the traumas and contradictions of the human condition.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300240813
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
An authoritative new history of the vampire, two hundred years after it first appeared on the literary scene Published to mark the bicentenary of John Polidori’s publication of The Vampyre, Nick Groom’s detailed new account illuminates the complex history of the iconic creature. The vampire first came to public prominence in the early eighteenth century, when Enlightenment science collided with Eastern European folklore and apparently verified outbreaks of vampirism, capturing the attention of medical researchers, political commentators, social theorists, theologians, and philosophers. Groom accordingly traces the vampire from its role as a monster embodying humankind’s fears, to that of an unlikely hero for the marginalized and excluded in the twenty-first century. Drawing on literary and artistic representations, as well as medical, forensic, empirical, and sociopolitical perspectives, this rich and eerie history presents the vampire as a strikingly complex being that has been used to express the traumas and contradictions of the human condition.
The Vampire
Author: Montague Summers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Vampires
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Vampires
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Eternal Prey
Author: Nina Bangs
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062036262
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
USA Today bestseller Nina Bangs is a star of paranormal romance and her wildly popular Gods of the Night series—which Publishers Weekly calls a “skillful blend of vampirology, Mayan lore, and extinct monoliths”—places her in the esteemed company of Lara Adrian, Marjorie M. Liu, and Pamela Palmer. Eternal Prey continues her streak of masterful, breathtakingly original dark romantic fantasy—a story of vampires, shapeshifters, and ultimate predators…and the forbidden love of a human woman, the unlikely leader of immortals, for a magnificent, greater-than-human creature who has sworn to avenge his brother’s murder.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062036262
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
USA Today bestseller Nina Bangs is a star of paranormal romance and her wildly popular Gods of the Night series—which Publishers Weekly calls a “skillful blend of vampirology, Mayan lore, and extinct monoliths”—places her in the esteemed company of Lara Adrian, Marjorie M. Liu, and Pamela Palmer. Eternal Prey continues her streak of masterful, breathtakingly original dark romantic fantasy—a story of vampires, shapeshifters, and ultimate predators…and the forbidden love of a human woman, the unlikely leader of immortals, for a magnificent, greater-than-human creature who has sworn to avenge his brother’s murder.
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.
Just a Bite
Author: Istvan Pivarcsi
Publisher: New Europe Books
ISBN: 0982578156
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
Mustering his extensive experience on the scene of the world's richest source of vampire lore, Transylvania, historian and author István Pivárcsi seeks to peel away the effects of popular culture and set the record straight, addressing essential questions in dozens of bite-size chapters: How did vampire legends emerge in the Balkans, Romania, and Transylvania? How did other monsters eventually coalesce as what we know as vampires? Who was the real Vlad the Impaler, and how did he come to personify the classic vampire? How did vampire-related oral traditions evolve over the centuries—and then explode with unprecedented force in both literature and popular culture from the mid-nineteenth century on? The ideal short reference for anyone with at least a passing interest in the undead, Just a Bite includes an extensive two-part appendix comprising a comprehensive glossary of vampire terms as well as a chronology of human beings' fascination (and interaction) with vampires through history. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Publisher: New Europe Books
ISBN: 0982578156
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
Mustering his extensive experience on the scene of the world's richest source of vampire lore, Transylvania, historian and author István Pivárcsi seeks to peel away the effects of popular culture and set the record straight, addressing essential questions in dozens of bite-size chapters: How did vampire legends emerge in the Balkans, Romania, and Transylvania? How did other monsters eventually coalesce as what we know as vampires? Who was the real Vlad the Impaler, and how did he come to personify the classic vampire? How did vampire-related oral traditions evolve over the centuries—and then explode with unprecedented force in both literature and popular culture from the mid-nineteenth century on? The ideal short reference for anyone with at least a passing interest in the undead, Just a Bite includes an extensive two-part appendix comprising a comprehensive glossary of vampire terms as well as a chronology of human beings' fascination (and interaction) with vampires through history. From the Trade Paperback edition.