The Universal Vampire: Origins and Evolution of a Legend

by Nancy Schumann

Book Overview

This book presents the vampire as a truly international phenomenon, not restricted to the original folk character, the literary vampire (such as Dracula), or 20th and 21st-century film versions. Instead, we find examples of vampires from literally around the world: each culture and age reshaping the legend in its own image and even seeking psychological and scientific explanations to explain the phenomenon.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1611478073
• ISBN13: 9781611478075
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"