The Vampire Book

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Publisher : Visible Ink Press
ISBN 13 : 1578593506
Total Pages : 945 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (785 download)

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Book Synopsis The Vampire Book by : J Gordon Melton

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 945 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.

Cult of the Nosferatu

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Publisher : Vampire Hunters Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781098392840
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (928 download)

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Book Synopsis Cult of the Nosferatu by : Mark Redfield

Download or read book Cult of the Nosferatu written by Mark Redfield and published by Vampire Hunters Incorporated. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bertram Welles, vampire hunter. Christmas in Manhattan. Tammy Greevly, a police cadet from Denver, travels to New York to find her brother and bring him home. Fearing that he is the victim of a religious cult, Greevly uses her budding detective skills to track her younger sibling down. Bertram Welles, who has been tracking a series of murders reported in the news and through his police contacts, and believing that they are connected to each other, soon crosses paths with Tammy Greevly. Welles is on his own, as he has given his agents off for the holidays, and so he must take Greevly into his world of secrets as together they investigate and infiltrate a CULT OF THE NOSFERATU.

The Vampire Archives

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Publisher : Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
ISBN 13 : 0307473899
Total Pages : 1058 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Book Synopsis The Vampire Archives by : Otto Penzler

Download or read book The Vampire Archives written by Otto Penzler and published by Vintage Crime/Black Lizard. This book was released on 2009-09-29 with total page 1058 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vampire Archives is the biggest, hungriest, undeadliest collection of vampire stories, as well as the most comprehensive bibliography of vampire fiction ever assembled. Dark, stormy, and delicious, once it sinks its teeth into you there’s no escape. Vampires! Whether imagined by Bram Stoker or Anne Rice, they are part of the human lexicon and as old as blood itself. They are your neighbors, your friends, and they are always lurking. Now Otto Penzler—editor of the bestselling Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps—has compiled the darkest, the scariest, and by far the most evil collection of vampire stories ever. With over eighty stories, including the works of Stephen King and D. H. Lawrence, alongside Lord Byron and Tanith Lee, not to mention Edgar Allan Poe and Harlan Ellison, The Vampire Archives will drive a stake through the heart of any other collection out there. Other contributors include: Arthur Conan Doyle • Ray Bradbury • Ambrose Bierce • H. P. Lovecraft • Harlan Ellison • Roger Zelazny • Robert Bloch • Clive Barker

The Vampire

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Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 029915923X
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (991 download)

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Book Synopsis The Vampire by : Alan Dundes

Download or read book The Vampire written by Alan Dundes and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1998-10-15 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vampires are the most fearsome and fascinating of all creatures of folklore. For the first time, detailed accounts of the vampire and how its tradition developed in different cultures are gathered in one volume by eminent folklorist Alan Dundes. Eleven leading scholars from the fields of Slavic studies, history, anthropology, and psychiatry unearth the true nature of the vampire from its birth in graveyard lore to the modern-day psychiatric patient with a penchant for drinking blood. The Vampire: A Casebook takes this legend out of the realm of literature and film and back to its dark beginnings in folk traditions. The essays examine the history of the word “vampire;” Romanian vampires; Greek vampires; Serbian vampires; the physical attributes of vampires; the killing of vampires; and the possible psychoanalytic underpinnings of vampires. Much more than simply a scary creature of the human imagination, the vampire has been and continues to haunt the lives of all those who encounter it—in reality or in fiction.

Wilkie Collins, Vera Caspary and the Evolution of the Casebook Novel

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Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786485035
Total Pages : 218 pages
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Book Synopsis Wilkie Collins, Vera Caspary and the Evolution of the Casebook Novel by : A.B. Emrys

Download or read book Wilkie Collins, Vera Caspary and the Evolution of the Casebook Novel written by A.B. Emrys and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilkie Collins was one of the most popular novelists during England's Victorian era. While Collins scholarship has often focused on social issues, this critical study explores his formal ingenuity, particularly the novel of testimony constructed from epistolary fiction, trial reports and prose monologue. His innovations in form were later mirrored by Vera Caspary, who adapted The Woman in White three times into contemporary fiction. This text explores how the formal dialogue between Collins and Caspary has linked sensation fiction with noir thrillers and film noir.

Real Vampires Have Curves

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780425220962
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (29 download)

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Book Synopsis Real Vampires Have Curves by : Gerry Bartlett

Download or read book Real Vampires Have Curves written by Gerry Bartlett and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BARTLETT/REAL VAMPIRES HAVE CURVES

Vampire Legends in Contemporary American Culture

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Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813153948
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Book Synopsis Vampire Legends in Contemporary American Culture by : William Patrick Day

Download or read book Vampire Legends in Contemporary American Culture written by William Patrick Day and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-02-15 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While vampire stories have been part of popular culture since the beginning of the nineteenth century, it has been in recent decades that they have become a central part of American culture. Vampire Legends in Contemporary American Culture looks at how vampire stories—from Bram Stoker's Dracula to Blacula, from Bela Lugosi's films to Love at First Bite—have become part of our ongoing debate about what it means to be human. William Patrick Day looks at how writers and filmmakers as diverse as Anne Rice and Andy Warhol present the vampire as an archetype of human identity, as well as how many post-modern vampire stories reflect our fear and attraction to stories of addiction and violence. He argues that contemporary stories use the character of Dracula to explore modern values, and that stories of vampire slayers, such as the popular television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer, integrate current feminist ideas and the image of the Vietnam veteran into a new heroic version of the vampire story.

The Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire

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Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031362535
Total Pages : 1746 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (313 download)

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Book Synopsis The Palgrave Handbook of the Vampire by : Simon Bacon

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Reading Vampire Gothic Through Blood

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137349239
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Book Synopsis Reading Vampire Gothic Through Blood by : Aspasia Stephanou

Download or read book Reading Vampire Gothic Through Blood written by Aspasia Stephanou and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading Vampire Gothic Through Blood examines the manifestations of blood and vampires in various texts and contexts. It seeks to connect, through blood, fictional to real-life vampires to trace similarities, differences and discontinuities. These movements will be seen to parallel changing notions about embodiment and identity in culture.

The Cumulative Book Index

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Cumulative Book Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 2312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world list of books in the English language.

Black Moon

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1597809861
Total Pages : 719 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (978 download)

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Book Synopsis Black Moon by : Seabury Quinn

Download or read book Black Moon written by Seabury Quinn and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 719 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concluding volume in a series collecting the stories of Jules de Grandin, the supernatural detective made famous in the classic pulp magazine Weird Tales. Today the names of H. P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, August Derleth, and Clark Ashton Smith, all regular contributors to the pulp magazine Weird Tales during the first half of the twentieth century, are recognizable even to casual readers of the bizarre and fantastic. And yet despite being more popular than them all during the golden era of genre pulp fiction, there is another author whose name and work have fallen into obscurity: Seabury Quinn. Quinn’s short stories were featured in well over half of Weird Tales’s original publication run. His most famous character, the French supernatural detective Dr. Jules de Grandin, investigated cases involving monsters, devil worshippers, serial killers, and spirits from beyond the grave, often set in the small town of Harrisonville, New Jersey. In de Grandin there are familiar shades of both Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes and Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot, and alongside his assistant, Dr. Samuel Trowbridge, de Grandin’s knack for solving mysteries—and his outbursts of peculiar French-isms (Grand Dieu!)—captivated readers for nearly three decades. Available for the first time in trade editions, The Complete Tales of Jules de Grandin collects all ninety-three published works featuring the supernatural detective. Presented in chronological order over five volumes, this is the definitive collection of an iconic pulp hero. The fifth volume, Black Moon, includes all the stories from “Suicide Chapel” (1938) to “The Ring of Bastet” (1951), as well as an introduction by George Vanderburgh and Robert Weinberg and a foreword by Stephen Jones.

Vampires

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1440580774
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (45 download)

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Book Synopsis Vampires by : Aubrey Sherman

Download or read book Vampires written by Aubrey Sherman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-07-04 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrilling treasury of vampire lore! Since the seventeenth century, people have been frightened, mesmerized, and fascinated by the terrifying tales of vampires. In this book, you'll uncover the history and mystery behind these bloodthirsty monsters with folklore, mythology, and poetry from every tradition in the world. From the Bosnian Lampir, whose disease-ridden corpse spread infection and death throughout villages, to Bram Stoker's charming Dracula, who helped define modern-day vampires, the wicked stories surrounding these nocturnal beings are sure to captivate anyone who has ever wondered about these shadow-loving creatures. Whether you're interested in exploring the culture of vampires or just want to learn more about their supernatural abilities, you'll discover dozens of compelling tales, historical accounts, and haunting legends that shed some light on these sinister beings. Complete with detailed illustrations, Vampires reveals the dark allure and gruesome power of these creatures of the night.

From Demons to Dracula

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

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Book Synopsis From Demons to Dracula by : Matthew Beresford

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.

The Vampire Encyclopedia

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Publisher : Gramercy
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis The Vampire Encyclopedia by : Matthew Bunson

Download or read book The Vampire Encyclopedia written by Matthew Bunson and published by Gramercy. This book was released on 2000 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over 2,000 entries in A-to-Z format,THE VAMPIRE ENCYCLOPEDIAis a one-stop reference for everything and anything to do with vampires, from books and films to the history of the vampire legend and ways to RESIST THESE IRRESISTIBLE CREATURES. The vampire is alive and flourishing in books, hit television shows, clubs, even comic books—there's no end in sight for the immortal ones!

The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes

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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199555648
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Book Synopsis The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes by : Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Download or read book The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2009-07-30 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These are the last twelve stories Conan Doyle wrote about Holmes and Watson. They reflect the disillusioned world of the 1920s and also include some of the wittiest passages in the series.

Comic Book Price Guide

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440215154
Total Pages : 3672 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (42 download)

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Book Synopsis Comic Book Price Guide by : Brent Frankenhoff

Download or read book Comic Book Price Guide written by Brent Frankenhoff and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-06-16 with total page 3672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essential Comics Values! From the authoritative stuff at Comics Buyer's Guide, the world's longest running magazine about comics, Comic Book Price Guide is the only guide on the market to give you extensive coverage of more than 150,000 comics from the Golden Age of the 1930s to current releases. In addition to the thousands of comic books from such publishers as Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, and Image, this collector-friendly reference includes listings for comic books from independent publishers, underground publishers, and more! This indispensable guide features: • Alphabetical organization by comic book title • Thousands of detailed photos • An exclusive photo grading guide to help you determine your comics' conditions accurately • Current values for more than 150,000 comics Comic Book Price Guide is the reliable reference for collectors, dealers, and anyone passionate about comic books!

Character Counts

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Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1456714384
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (567 download)

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Book Synopsis Character Counts by : Michael Glenn Maness

Download or read book Character Counts written by Michael Glenn Maness and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: