Vampires, Burial, and Death: Folklore and Reality by Paul Barber

Vampires, Burial, and Death: Folklore and Reality

Paul Barber

246 pages first pub 1988 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced

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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 terroriz...

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