The Vampire Book

J Gordon Melton

Description

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, PhD 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 blood thirsty 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: 9781578593507
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 4 Mo

Extrait

A BOUT THE A UTHOR

J . Gordon Melton is the director of the Institute for 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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C ONTENTS
Foreword to Third Edition by Martin V. Riccardo
Introduction by J. Gordon Melton
Acknowledgments
Vampires: A Chronology
Preface: What Is a Vampire? by J. Gordon Melton
A
Ackerman, Forrest James
Aconite
The Addams Family
Africa, Vampires in
African American Vampires
Allatius, Leo
Alnwick Castle, The Vampire of
Aluka
America, Vampires in
Anemia
Angel
Animals
Appearance of a Vampire
Armand
Armenia, Vampires in
Ashley, Amanda
Atlanta Vampire Alliance
Australia, Vampires in
B
Babylon and Assyria, Vampires in Ancient
Baker, Roy Ward
Balderston, John L.
Baltic States, Vampires in the
Bangs, Nina
Banks, L. A.
Bara, Theda
Baron Blood
Bathory, Elizabeth
Batman
Bats, Vampire
Bava, Mario
Belanger, Michelle
Bergstrom, Elaine
Berwick, The Vampire of
Bibliography, Vampire
Bistritz
Blacula
Blade the Vampire Slayer
Blood
Bloodrayne
Borgo Pass
Borland, Caroll
Bouchard, Angélique
Boucicault, Dion
The Bram Stoker Society
Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Brides, Vampire
Brite, Poppy Z.
Browning, Tod
Bruja
Bruxa
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (movie)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (television series)
Bulgaria, Vampires in
Bullet
Bunnicula
Burton, Richard Francis
Byron, Lord George Gordon
C
Calmet, Dom Augustin
The Camarilla: A Vampire Fan Association
Carfax
Carmilla
Carradine, John
Carter, Margaret Louise
Cast, P. C. & Kristin
Castle Dracula
Chaney, Alonso “Lon”
Chaos! Comics
Characteristics of Vampires
Charnas, Suzy McKee
Chase, Cornelia
Chetwynd-Hayes, Ronald Henry Glynn
China, Vampires in
Christianity and Vampires
Chupacabras
Coffins
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Collins, Barnabas
Collins, Nancy A.
Collinsport Players
Comic Books, The Vampire in
Cooke, Thomas Potter
Coppola, Francis Ford
Corman, Roger William
Count Dracula
Count von Count
Crime, Vampiric
Croglin Grange, The Vampire of
Crucifix
Cruise, Tom
Cullen, Edward
Cult of the Vampire
Cuntius, Johannes
Curtis, Dan
Cushing, Peter
Czech Republic and Slovakia, Vampires in the
D
Daniels, Leslie Noel, III
Dark Delicacies
Dark Shadows
Dark Shadows Fandom
Davanzati, Giuseppe
Davidson, MaryJanice
de Lioncourt, Lestat
de Villenueva, Sebastian
Deane, Hamilton
Decapitation
The Desert Island Dracula Library
Destroying the Vampire
Dhampir
Dracula
Dracula (1931)
Dracula (Spanish, 1931)
Dracula (1973)
Dracula (1979)
Dracula (Dell Comics Superhero)
Dracula (Marvel Comics Character)
Dracula ‘97: A Centennial Celebration
Dracula; or, The Undead
The Dracula Society (UK)
Dracula—The Series
Dracula: The Vampire Play in Three Acts
Drama, Vampire
Dreyer, Carl Theodor
Duckula, Count
Dumas, Alexandre
Dust
E
El Conde Dracula
Elliott, Denholm Mitchell
Elrod, P. N.
Elvira
Estries
Eucharistic Wafer
Ewers, Hanns Heinz
Explanations of Vampirism
F
Fangs
Feehan, Christine
Fingernails
Fire
Fisher, Terence
Florescu, Radu R.
Flying Vampires
Forever Knight
Forever Knight Fandom
Fortune, Dion
France, Vampires in
Frankenstein’s Monster
Frid, Jonathan
Frost, Deacon
G
Games, Vampire
Garden, Nancy
Garlic
Garton, Ray
Gautier, Théophile
Germany, Vampires in
Ghouls
Giles, Rupert
Glut, Donald Frank
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Good Guy Vampires
Gothic
Greece, Vampires in
Green, Chris Marie
Greenberg, Martin H.
Gypsies, Vampires and the
H
Haarmann, Fritz
Haigh, John George
Haining, Peter Alexander
Hamilton, Laurell K.
Hammer Films
Harker, Jonathan
Harris, Charlaine
Harris, Xander
Harrison, Kim
Hartmann, Franz
Hawthorn
The Highgate Vampire
Holder, Nancy
Holmes, Sherlock
Holmwood, Arthur
Homosexuality and the Vampire
The Horror of Dracula
Hour of the Wolf
Huff, Tanya
Humor, Vampire
Hungary, Vampires in
Huntley, Raymond
Hurwood, Bernhardt J.
Hypnotic Powers?
I
I … Vampire
Incubus/Succubus
India, Vampires in
International Vampire
Internet, Vampires on the
Interview with the Vampire
Ireland, Vampires in
Italy, Vampires in
Ivan the Terrible?
J
Jacula
Japan, Vampires in
Java, Vampires in
Jourdan, Louis
Journal of Vampirology
Juvenile Literature
K
Kali
Kalogridis, Jeanne
Keats, John
Kenyon, Sherrilyn
Kilpatrick, Nancy
Kindred: The Embraced
King, Stephen
Kürten, Peter
L
LaCroix, Lucien
Langella, Frank
Langsuyar
Le Fanu, Joseph Thomas Sheridan
Leatherdale, Clive
Lee, Christopher
Lee, Tanith
Lesbian Vampires
Lilith
Lilith, the Daughter of Dracula
Lindpainter, Peter Josef von
Lobishomen
London after Midnight
London, Dracula’s
Loogaroo
The Lord Ruthven Assembly
Lory, Robert Edward
Lugosi, Bela
Lumley, Brian
M
Malaysia, Vampires in
Man-Bat
The Manor of the Devil
Marryat, Florence
Marschner, Heinrich August
Marshall, William B.
Matheson, Richard
McNally, Raymond T.
Melrose Abbey, the Vampire of
Mexico, Vampires in
Meyer, Stephenie
Midnight Sons
Miller, Elizabeth Anne
Miller, Linda Lael
Mirrors
Mist
Miyu, Vampire Princess
Moon
Morbius
Morris, Quincey P.
Moss, Stephanie
Mountain A