Vampires, Burial, and Death: Folklore and Reality

In this engrossing book, Paul Barber surveys centuries of folklore about vampires and offers the first scientific 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, his book is fascinating reading.

• The Penguin Book of Vampire Stories
• Dracula
• From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
• The Vampire Film: Undead Cinema (Short Cuts)
• Dracula
• Dracula
• Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
• The Vampire: A Casebook
• Ozark Magic and Folklore
• Pissing in the Snow and Other Ozark Folktales