The Vampire Book

J Gordon Melton

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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, Ph.D. 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 bloodthirsty 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.

Sujets

• Unexplained Phenomena
• Son of Sam
• Lestat el vampiro
• Jack el Destripador
• Lilit
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Jack the Ripper
• Body (disambiguation)
• Vlad III the Impaler
• The Vampire Lestat
• Spirituality
• Satanism
• Supernatural
• Night Stalker
• Ted Bundy
• Jack l'éventreur
• Wicca
• Lilith
• Dracula
• Buffy contre les vampires

Informations

• Publié par: Visible Ink Press
• Date de parution: 01 septembre 2010
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781578593484
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 11 Mo

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
. Gordon Melton is the director of the InstituteJfor the Study of American Religion in Santa
Barbara, California, one of America’s leading
religious studies centers. He is the author of more
than 40 reference and scholarly books in the field.
Melton is also the president of the American
chapter of the Transylvanian Society of Dracula,
a network of scholars and others who have an
interest in Dracula and vampire studies. Through
the 1990s he developed a real interest in making
factual material about Dracula and vampires
available to the growing audience of vampire fans.
His life-long interest in vampires, reaching
back to his teen years, led to his spending his
leisure time with vampire novels and movies and
eventually to his authoring a set of books exploring the worlds of the Undead in the
1990s, including The Vampire Gallery: A Who’s Who of the Undead and VideoHound’s
Vampires on Video. He has also been featured on a number of shows on vampires on the
History Channel, A & E, and The Learning Channel. In 1997, he joined with two of
his colleagues in organizing Dracula ’97, the centennial celebration of the publication
of Dracula held in Los Angeles.
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Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
Melton, J. Gordon.
The vampire book : the encyclopedia of the undead / by J. Gordon Melton.
— 3rd ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-57859-281-4 (alk. paper)
1. Vampires—Encyclopedias. I. Title.
BF1556.M46 2011
398’.45—dc22 2010024263
Printed in the United States of America
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CONTENTS
Foreword to Third Edition by Martin V. Riccardo [xiii]
Introduction by J. Gordon Melton [xv]
Acknowledgments [xix]
Vampires: A Chronology [xxi]
Preface: What Is a Vampire? by J. Gordon Melton [xxix]
Browning, Tod Bruja Bruxa Buffy the
Vampire Slayer (movie) Buffy the VampireA . . . . . . . . . . . . . .[1] Slayer (television series) Bulgaria, Vampires
Ackerman, Forrest James Aconite The in Bullet Bunnicula Burton, Richard
Addams Family Africa, Vampires in Francis Byron, Lord George Gordon
African American Vampires Allatius, Leo
Alnwick Castle, The Vampire of Aluka
America, Vampires in Anemia Angel C . . . . . . . . . . . . .[99]Animals Appearance of a Vampire
Armand Armenia, Vampires in Ashley, Calmet, Dom Augustin The Camarilla: A
Amanda Atlanta Vampire Alliance Aus- Vampire Fan Association Carfax Carmilla
tralia, Vampires in Carradine, John Carter, Margaret Louise
Cast, P. C. & Kristin Castle Dracula
Chaney, Alonso “Lon” Chaos! Comics
Characteristics of Vampires Charnas, SuzyB . . . . . . . . . . . . .[31] McKee Chase, Cornelia
ChetwyndBabylon and Assyria, Vampires in Ancient Hayes, Ronald Henry Glynn China,
VamBaker, Roy Ward Balderston, John L. pires in Christianity and Vampires
Baltic States, Vampires in the Bangs, Nina Chupacabras Coffins Coleridge, Samuel
Banks, L. A. Bara, Theda Baron Blood Taylor Collins, Barnabas Collins, Nancy
Bathory, Elizabeth Batman Bats, Vampire A. Collinsport Players Comic Books, The
Bava, Mario Belanger, Michelle Vampire in Cooke, Thomas Potter
CopBergstrom, Elaine Berwick, The Vampire of pola, Francis Ford Corman, Roger William
Bibliography, Vampire Bistritz Blacula Count Dracula Count von Count Crime,
Blade the Vampire Slayer Blood Blood- Vampiric Croglin Grange, The Vampire of
rayne Borgo Pass Borland, Caroll Crucifix Cruise, Tom Cullen, Edward
Bouchard, Angélique Boucicault, Dion Cult of the Vampire Cuntius, Johannes
The Bram Stoker Society Bram Stoker’s Curtis, Dan Cushing, Peter Czech
RepubDracula Brides, Vampire Brite, Poppy Z. lic and Slovakia, Vampires in the
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son, Kim Hartmann, Franz Hawthorn
The Highgate Vampire Holder, Nancy D . . . . . . . . . . .[173] Holmes, Sherlock Holmwood, Arthur
HoDaniels, Leslie Noel, III Dark Delicacies mosexuality and the Vampire The Horror of
Dark Shadows Dark Shadows Fandom Da- Dracula Hour of the Wolf Huff, Tanya
vanzati, Giuseppe Davidson, MaryJanice Humor, Vampire Hungary, Vampires in
de Lioncourt, Lestat de Villenueva, Sebast- Huntley, Raymond Hurwood, Bernhardt J.
ian Deane, Hamilton Decapitation The Hypnotic Powers
Desert Island Dracula Library Destroying the
Vampire Dhampir Dracula Dracula
(1931) Dracula (Spanish, 1931) Dracula I . . . . . . . . . . . . . .[367]
(1973) (1979) Dracula (Dell
I … Vampire Incubus/Succubus India,Comics Superhero) Dracula (Marvel Comics
Vampires in International Vampire Inter-Character) Dracula ’97: A Centennial
Celnet, Vampires on the Interview with the Vam-ebration Dracula; or, The Undead The
pire Ireland, Vampires in Italy, VampiresDracula Society (UK) Dracula—The Series
in Ivan the TerribleDracula: The Vampire Play in Three Acts
Drama, Vampire Dreyer, Carl Theodor
Duckula, Count Dumas, Alexandre Dust J . . . . . . . . . . . . . .[387]
Jacula Japan, Vampires in Java, VampiresE . . . . . . . . . . . . .[233] in Jourdan, Louis Journal of Vampirology
Juvenile LiteratureEl Conde Dracula Elliott, Denholm
Mitchell Elrod, P. N. Elvira Estries
Eucharistic Wafer Ewers, Hanns Heinz
Explanations of Vampirism K . . . . . . . . . . . .[399]
Kali Kalogridis, Jeanne Keats, John
Kenyon, Sherrilyn Kilpatrick, Nancy Kin-F . . . . . . . . . . . . .[245] dred: The Embraced King, Stephen Kürten,
PeterFangs Feehan, Christine Fingernails Fire
Fisher, Terence Florescu, Radu R.
Flying Vampires Forever Knight Forever Knight
Fandom Fortune, Dion France, Vampires L . . . . . . . . . . . . .[411]
in Frankenstein’s Monster Frid, Jonathan
LaCroix, Lucien Langella, Frank Langsu- Frost, Deacon
yar Le Fanu, Joseph Thomas Sheridan
Leatherdale, Clive Lee, Christopher Lee,
Tanith Lesbian Vampires Lilith Lilith,G . . . . . . . . . . . .[271] the Daughter of Dracula Lindpainter, Peter
Josef von Lobishomen London after Mid-Games, Vampire Garden, Nancy Garlic
night London, Dracula’s Loogaroo TheGarton, Ray Gautier,