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Vampire 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. |
The audiobook of this title is available at University Press Audiobooks. |
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Alan Dundes (1934–2005)
was professor of anthropology and folklore at the University
of California, Berkeley, and published ten books with the University
of Wisconsin Press, including 
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