Vampires Are Us: Understanding Our Love Affair with the Immortal Dark Side

by Margot Adler

Book Overview

"Vampires. Why do we care? In these pages you will find what is very simply, the most literate, imaginative, and just plain fascinating answer to that question ever written." ?Whitley Strieber

In a culture that does not do death particularly well, we are obsessed with mortality. Margot Adler writes, "Vampires let us play with death and the issue of mortality. They let us ponder what it would mean to be truly long lived. Would the long...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1578635608
• ISBN13: 9781578635603
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Weiser Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"