| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 260 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Back from the dead : monsters and violence -- Conversion in the Balkans : a thousand years of the vampire -- Scapegoats and demons : a thousand years of the vampire, continued -- Into the West : from folklore to literature -- Seers and slayers -- Seeing the dead -- The rational slayer -- From Vienna to London -- The slayer generation |
| Summary |
Exploring how the vampire slayer began, this book goes further to ask why the true history of the vampire slayer has been so long ignored. It is of interest to fans of Dracula, vampire, Buffy, Anne Rice, and Anita Blake lore, and to students of anthropology, sociology, European religious history, and Slavistics |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-255) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Vampires -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Folklore & Mythology.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Vampires
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780472026234 |
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0472026232 |
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1282597787 |
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9781282597785 |
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9786612597787 |
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661259778X |
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