Vampyr Nosferatu Dracul or Vlad the Impaler 2
Explore the myth of the vampire with our curated book list on Vampyr, Nosferatu, Dracul, and Vlad the Impaler. Featuring essential reads like Bram Stoker's Dracula, Elizabeth Miller's Dracula, and In Search of Dracula, this collection spans history, folklore, and horror to uncover the truth behind the legend.
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In Search of Dracula
by Raymond T. McNally
A newly revised edition of the classic account of Vlad the Impaler--just in time for Halloween--now includes entries from Bram Stoker's recently discovered diaries, the amazing tale of Nicolae Ceausescu's attempt to make Vlad a national hero, and an examination of recent adaptations in fiction, stage and screen. 70 b&w illustrations.
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Dracula
by Bram Stoker
The classic tale of the bizarre Carpathian count, who drinks human blood to stay alive, and the Englishman who knows his secret
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The Vampire Book
by J. Gordon Melton
This book takes the reader on a vast, alphabetic tour of the psychosexual, macabre world of the blood-sucking undead. From Vlad the Impaler to Barnabas Collins to Dracula and Lestat, it supplies nearly 500 exhaustive essays illustrated with more than 250 photos. A very thorough unearthing of the vampire through the ages, this guide relies on a collection of 2,000 titles on vampires, digging deep into the lore, the myths, and the reported realities of vampires and vampire legends from around the world.
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Dracula
by Elizabeth Miller
A cultural historian gives us an overview of the remarkable myth of Count Dracula, rediscovered by Bram Stoker for his early film, "Dracula," & later interpreted by such great filmmakers as Francis Ford Coppola, Christopher Lee, Murnau, & others. 206 pages/ 100 color illustrations & 70 B&W.
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The Vampire
by Alan Dundes
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.
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Vampires, Burial, and Death
by Paul Barber
Surveys centuries of folklore about vampires and offers a scientific explanation for the origins of the legends.
