Vampires, Burial, and Death: Folklore and Reality; With a New Preface

Surveys centuries of folklore about vampires. This book offers an explanation for the origins of the vampire legends, from the tale of a sixteenth-century shoemaker from Breslau whose ghost terrorized everyone in the city, to the testimony of a doctor who presided over the exhumation and dissection of a graveyard full of Serbian vampires.

• | By (Author): Paul Barber
• | Publisher: Yale University Press
• | Publication Date: May 04, 2010
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 256 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Paperback|Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0300164815
• | ISBN-13: 9780300164817