From the rear cover
INALLY, THE TRUTH ABOUT VAMPIRES
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 continues to haunt the lives of all those who encounter it -- in reality or in fiction.
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- Title The Vampire: A Casebook
- Author Alan Dundes
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 192
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Wisconsin Press, University of Wisconsin Press
- Date 1998-09-24
- ISBN 9780299159245 / 0299159248
- Weight 0.59 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 9.3 x 6.02 x 0.44 in (23.62 x 15.29 x 1.12 cm)
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Themes
- Holiday: Halloween
- Topical: New Age
- Library of Congress subjects Vampires
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98010399
- Dewey Decimal Code 398.21
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- Library Journal, 09/15/1998, Page 0
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