ISBN:
9780711285088
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (115 pages)
Series Statement:
Supernatural Sourcebook Series
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
398.21
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Secrets of the Vampire delves into the storied lore behind one of the world's most enduring supernatural beings, inviting you into the dark to meet the myths and monsters who live there.
Abstract:
Cover -- Title -- Contents -- By Way of Introduction . . . -- Vampires around the world -- Antiquity & -- the Origins of Thirst -- The reign of bloodthirsty goddesses -- Lamia -- Revenants of the ancient world -- Philinnion, living dead of antiquity -- Blood, elixir of the gods -- Lilith the accursed -- Strigoi, the first Slavic vampires -- The Middle Ages, When Revenants Take Shape -- When the dead arise from the grave -- The draugar of Norse sagas -- Vampires and epidemics -- Fear of the living dead -- The Renaissance, a Dance Led by the Devil -- Demonology and vampiric phenomena -- Dance of the living dead -- The origins of the nightmare -- Vampires and werewolves -- The Gandillon family -- Eastern Europe, Land of the Vampire -- The shroud-munching dead -- Outbreaks of hasty burials -- Vlad the Impaler -- Elizabeth Báthory -- The faces of the vampire multiply -- A gallery of Eastern European vampires -- The Enlightenment Paradox: the Vampire is Born -- The vampire is baptised -- The case of Arnold Paole -- Dom Augustin Calmet and the quest for truth -- The pope's letter to the archbishop -- Voltaire and the vampire -- Vampirism in the light of science and reason -- Vampirism put to the medical test -- The Vampire Transforms -- A triumph of ink and blood -- Romantic heroes and femmes fatales -- Victorian England shivers with delight -- Dracula, the modern myth -- Bram Stoker and Marie Nizet -- The Mercy Brown case -- New Generation Vampires -- Dracula on screen, a tale of love and blood -- Coppola's Dracula, the vampire tormented by his sins -- Down with Dracula: the birth of the modern vampire -- From darkness to light -- Buffy the stereotype slayer -- Edward Cullen, the eternal Prince Charming -- Adam and Eve, immortal lovers of a world in decline -- Vampire Symbols and Emblems -- Garlic -- Silver -- Hawthorn -- The Vampire Ball -- Mist.
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