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From Demons to Dracula

Author : Matthew Beresford
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1861897421
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book From Demons to Dracula written by Matthew Beresford and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2008-12-15 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In blood-soaked lore handed down the centuries, the vampire is a monster of endless fascination: from Bram Stoker’s Dracula to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, this seductive lover of blood haunts popular culture and inhabits our darkest imaginings. The cultural history of the vampire is a rich and varied tale that is now ably documented in From Demons to Dracula, a compelling study of the vampire myth that reveals why this creature of the undead fascinates us so. Beresford’s chronicle roams from the mountains of Eastern Europe to the foggy streets of Victorian England to Hollywood, as he investigates the portrayal of the vampire in history, literature, and art. Opening with the original Dracula, Vlad the Impaler, and his status as a national hero in Romania, he endeavors to winnow out truths from the complex legend and folklore. From Demons to Dracula tracks the evolution of the vampire as an icon and supernatural creature, drawing on classical Greek and Roman myths, witch trials and medieval plagues, Gothic literature, and even contemporary works such as Anne Rice’s Interview with a Vampire and Elizabeth Kostova’s The Historian. Beresford also looks at the widespread impact of screen vampires from television shows, classic movies starring Bela Lugosi and Christopher Lee, and more recent films such as Underworld and Blade. Whether as a demon of the underworld or a light-fearing hunter of humans, the vampire has endured through the centuries, the book reveals, as powerfully symbolic figure for human concerns with life, death, and the afterlife. A wide-ranging and engrossing chronicle, From Demons to Dracula casts this blood-thirsty nightstalker as a remarkably complex and telling totem of our nightmares, real and imagined.

From Demons to Dracula

Author : Mathew Beresford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book From Demons to Dracula written by Mathew Beresford and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Dracula Papers

Author : Reggie Oliver
Publisher : Chomu Press
ISBN 13 : 9781907681028
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The Dracula Papers written by Reggie Oliver and published by Chomu Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We know, from Bram Stoker¿s great book, of Count Dracula¿s adventures in the 1890s as one of the `undead¿. But how did he come to be `undead¿? Using intense historical research and a good deal of speculation, The Dracula Papers, Book I: The Scholar¿s Tale is the first in a series of four books which attempt to answer that question.

Dracula

Author : Bram Stoker
Publisher : Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 0394848284
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (948 download)

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Download or read book Dracula written by Bram Stoker and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1982-04-12 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: String garlic by the window and hang a cross around your neck! The most powerful vampire of all time returns in our Stepping Stone Classic adaption of the original tale by Bran Stoker. Follow Johnathan Harker, Mina Harker, and Dr. Abraham van Helsing as they discover the true nature of evil. Their battle to destroy Count Dracula takes them from the crags of his castle to the streets of London... and back again.

Dracula of Transylvania

Author : Ricardo Delgado
Publisher : Clover Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781951038618
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (386 download)

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Download or read book Dracula of Transylvania written by Ricardo Delgado and published by Clover Press, LLC. This book was released on 2023-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History bleeds evil. 1899 Transylvania bleeds of history and evil. Young Solicitor Jonathan Harker braves ghosts, demons, living skeletons, and armies of rats, as he encounters Dracula of Transylvania, the Son of Satan. The demonic, shapeshifting vampire imposes his wrath, malice, and vengeance upon an England about to enter the Modern Era, crushing everything in his path. Dracula of Transylvania is a fresh, bold retelling of the classic Stoker dark fairy tale with the pulse-pounding pace of the modern thriller. It is a gripping new softcover novel lavished with incredible concept art from one of Hollywood's leading Conceptual Designers, Ricardo Delgado. Murder among English tombstones! Daring chases through the infamous underground Paris Ossuaries! A spectacular gladiatorial battle within Rome's Colosseum during the Witching Hour! All this topped by a fever-pitch chase through Europe to the most terrifying place on earth: Castle Dracula. Dracula of Transylvania is The Exorcist meets Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings, in a sprawling yet haunting adventure with the air of the Victorian Era Ghost story. It is a powerful, unrelenting, and fascinating new vision of one of literature's most feared characters. This edition is footnoted throughout with historical facts from the Ancient to the Modern World.

Adult Coloring Vampires and Demons

Author : Ace Publishing
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781979764322
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (643 download)

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Download or read book Adult Coloring Vampires and Demons written by Ace Publishing and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW RELEASE FALL SPECIAL 15% off was $8.99 now $7.64 Adult Coloring Vampires & Demons Is perfect for the Vampire & Demon lover in all of us. If you love Vampires & Demons then this is the coloring book for you. So take a deep breath sharpen those pencils start to color and relax. And as always happy coloring. Product Details: Printed single-sided on bright white paper Premium glossy cover finish Perfect for all coloring mediums High quality 60 pound paper stock 8.5" wide x 8.5" tall pages

Actual Factual

Author : T. Glenn Bane
Publisher : Nedeo Press
ISBN 13 : 9780976387435
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (874 download)

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Download or read book Actual Factual written by T. Glenn Bane and published by Nedeo Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first definitive catalogue of vampires that has been compiled in the past 300 years. Before Bram Stoker's Dracula, before Vlad the Impaler, the world lived in mortal fear of the undead rising from their graves to feed upon the living. In this book, vampirologist Theresa Bane reveals the actual, factual truth about these creatures from history, myth, and legend.

The Universal Vampire

Author : Barbara Brodman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611475805
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book The Universal Vampire written by Barbara Brodman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the publication of John Polidori's The Vampyre (1819), the vampire has been a mainstay of Western culture, appearing consistently in literature, art, music (notably opera), film, television, graphic novels and popular culture in general. Even before its entrance into the realm of arts and letters in the early nineteenth century, the vampire was a feared creature of Eastern European folklore and legend, rising from the grave at night to consume its living loved ones and neighbors, often converting them at the same time into fellow vampires. A major question exists within vampire scholarship: to what extent is this creature a product of European cultural forms, or is the vampire indeed a universal, perhaps even archetypal figure? In this collection of sixteen original essays, the contributors shed light on this question. One essay traces the origins of the legend to the early medieval Norse draugr, an "undead" creature who reflects the underpinnings of Dracula, the latter first appearing as a vampire in Anglo-Irish Bram Stoker's 1897 novel, Dracula. In addition to these investigations of the Western mythic, literary and historic traditions, other essays in this volume move outside Europe to explore vampire figures in Native American and Mesoamerican myth and ritual, as well as the existence of similar vampiric traditions in Japanese, Russian and Latin American art, theatre, literature, film, and other cultural productions. The female vampire looms large, beginning with the Sumerian goddess Lilith, including the nineteenth-century Carmilla, and moving to vampiresses in twentieth-century film, literature, and television series. Scientific explanations for vampires and werewolves constitute another section of the book, including eighteenth-century accounts of unearthing, decapitation and cremation of suspected vampires in Eastern Europe. The vampire's beauty, attainment of immortality and eternal youth are all suggested as reasons for its continued success in contemporary popular culture.

I Am Dracula

Author : C. Dean Andersson
Publisher : Crossroad Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Am Dracula written by C. Dean Andersson and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2018-05-13 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the haunted Carpathian Mountains of darkest Transylvania, Dracula reveals the Secret History of Vampires, Witches, and blasphemous horror. Told in his own words, here is the story of Dracula, a mortal warlord destined to become the Vampire King of the Undead. You have been told many lies. Now learn the truth. Welcome to Dracula’s world. *** “No vampire fan’s library is complete without a copy of C. Dean Andersson’s I Am Dracula. The author knows his subject thoroughly. We recommend I Am Dracula without reservation.” — Dr. Jeanne Youngson, President and Founder of The Count Dracula Fan Club “Dean Andersson’s horror is always fearsome and up-front. His words cut like razor wire, and every punctuation mark is a drop of real blood.” — Graham Masterton “The Heavy Metal of Fantasy adventure.” — Publishers Weekly

Demon Hunter's Handbook

Author : Abelard Van Helsing
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781862057418
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (574 download)

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Download or read book Demon Hunter's Handbook written by Abelard Van Helsing and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the legacy of Demon Hunter Abelard Van Helsing. It contains the wisdom of a lifetime's fight against the forces of Evil. With no apprentice,Van Helsing hid this book in the hope it would be found by one who could take up his cause.These are the manic scribblings from one who knows that death is at his shoulder. With this knowledge the world can be saved from darkness. Learn about the Hunter's weapons, recognize disguised demons and free curs'd souls. But beware, the path is treacherous. Will you inherit the mantle of the Demon Hunter?

The Vampire

Author : Montague Summers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Vampire written by Montague Summers and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

How to Be A Vampire

Author : Amy Gray
Publisher : Templar Books
ISBN 13 : 9781848771840
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (718 download)

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Download or read book How to Be A Vampire written by Amy Gray and published by Templar Books. This book was released on 2009-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For those who join the decadent realm of the vampire, eternal life holds juicy perks--charm and strength, shape-shifting and flying, telepathy and super-powered senses. "How to Be a Vampire" is a comprehensive guide to the vampire lifestyle that quenches newcomers' thirst for lore--and tasteful tips. Illustrations.

The Skull of Dracula

Author : Raymond Love
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781500507954
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book The Skull of Dracula written by Raymond Love and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2014-07-13 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Skull of Dracula is not just another story about the legendary vampire Dracula. If you are a fan of Dracula himself, then read this story which depicts him as a victim who seeks redemption through others after making a deal with the Grim Reaper. Watch as a young boy named Silent James, who ages seven years every time he sleeps, and is allergic to sunlight, somehow ended up with his father's memories who he never met. One of these memories is of where the skull of Dracula was hidden for unknown reasons, and started an adventure through Purgatory, in a race to The Valley of Death, while being hunted by The Devil's group of Vampires, Werewolves, Zombies and Demons.

The White Devil

Author : Matthew Beresford
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1780232055
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book The White Devil written by Matthew Beresford and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Ovid’s Lycaon to Professor Lupin, from Teen Wolf to An American Werewolf in Paris, the lycanthrope, or werewolf, comes to us frequently on the page and the silver screen. These interpretations often display lycanthropy as a curse, with the afflicted person becoming an uncontrollable, feral beast during every full moon. But this is just one version of the werewolf—its origins can be traced back thousands of years to early prehistory, and everything from Iron Age bog bodies and Roman gods to people such as Joan of Arc, Adolf Hitler, and Sigmund Freud feature in its story. Exploring the role of this odd assortment of ideas and people in the myth, The White Devil tracks the development of the werewolf from its birth to the present day, seeking to understand why the wolf curse continues to hold a firm grip on the modern imagination. Combining early death and burial rites, mythology, folklore, archaeological evidence, and local superstitions, Matthew Beresford explains that the werewolf has long been present in the beliefs and mythology of the many cultures of Europe. He examines prehistoric wolf cults, the use of the wolf as a symbol of ancient Rome, medieval werewolf executions, and the eradication of wolves by authorities in England during the Anglo-Saxon period. He also surveys werewolf trials, medical explanations, and alleged sightings, as well as the instances in which lycanthropes appear in literature and film. With sixty illustrations of these often terrifying—but sometimes noble—beasts, The White Deviloffers a new understanding of the survival of the werewolf in European culture.

The Vampire Book

Author : J Gordon Melton
Publisher : Visible Ink Press
ISBN 13 : 1578593506
Total Pages : 944 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (785 download)

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Download or read book The Vampire Book written by J Gordon Melton and published by Visible Ink Press. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ultimate Collection of Vampire Facts and Fiction From Vlad the Impaler to Barnabas Collins to Edward Cullen to Dracula and Bill Compton, renowned religion expert and fearless vampire authority J. Gordon Melton, PhD takes the reader on a vast, alphabetic tour of the psychosexual, macabre world of the blood-sucking undead. Digging deep into the lore, myths, pop culture, and reported realities of vampires and vampire legends from across the globe, The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead exposes everything about the blood thirsty predator. Death and immortality, sexual prowess and surrender, intimacy and alienation, rebellion and temptation. The allure of the vampire is eternal, and The Vampire Book explores it all. The historical, literary, mythological, biographical, and popular aspects of one of the world's most mesmerizing paranormal subject. This vast reference is an alphabetical tour of the psychosexual, macabre world of the soul-sucking undead. In the first fully revised and updated edition in a decade, Dr. J. Gordon Melton (president of the American chapter of the Transylvania Society of Dracula) bites even deeper into vampire lore, myths, reported realities, and legends that come from all around the world. From Transylvania to plague-infested Europe to Nostradamus and from modern literature to movies and TV series, this exhaustive guide furnishes more than 500 essays to quench your thirst for facts, biographies, definitions, and more.

The Historian

Author : Elizabeth Kostova
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 075951383X
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (595 download)

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Download or read book The Historian written by Elizabeth Kostova and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2005-06-01 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The record-breaking phenomenon from Elizabeth Kostova is a celebrated masterpiece that "refashioned the vampire myth into a compelling contemporary novel, a late-night page-turner" (San Francisco Chronicle). Breathtakingly suspenseful and beautifully written, The Historian is the story of a young woman plunged into a labyrinth where the secrets of her family’s past connect to an inconceivable evil: the dark fifteenth-century reign of Vlad the Impaler and a time-defying pact that may have kept his awful work alive through the ages. The search for the truth becomes an adventure of monumental proportions, taking us from monasteries and dusty libraries to the capitals of Eastern Europe—in a feat of storytelling so rich, so hypnotic, so exciting that it has enthralled readers around the world. “Part thriller, part history, part romance...Kostova has a keen sense of storytelling and she has a marvelous tale to tell.” —Baltimore Sun

Adam, Eve, and the Devil

Author : Marjo C. A. Korpel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781909697522
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Adam, Eve, and the Devil written by Marjo C. A. Korpel and published by . This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book the authors develop an intriguing theory about the Canaanite origin of the biblical traditions concerning the origin of the cosmos and the creation of humankind. Adam, Eve, and the Devil tells a new story about human beginnings and at the same time proposes a fresh start for biblical research into primordial traditions. A number of clay tablets from Ugarit, dating from the late thirteenth century BCE, throw new light, Korpel and de Moor argue, on the background of the first chapters of Genesis and the myth of Adam. In these tablets, El, the creator deity, and his wife Asherah lived in a vineyard or garden on the slopes of Mt Ararat, known in the Bible as the mountain where Noah's ark came to rest. The first sinner was not a human being, but an evil god called Horon who wanted to depose El. Horon was thrown down from the mountain of the gods, and in revenge he transformed the Tree of Life in the garden into a Tree of Death and enveloped the whole world in a poisonous fog. Adam was sent down to restore life on earth, but failed because Horon in the form of a huge serpent bit him. As a result Adam and his wife lost their immortality. This myth found its way into the Bible, the Apocrypha and the Pseudepigraphical literature, though it was often transformed or treated critically. Adam, Eve, and the Devil traces the reception of the myth in its many forms, and also presents the oldest pictures of Adam and Eve ever identified (one of them on the front cover of the book).