Vampires: First Blood Volume I: The Vampire Lords

by James Grant Goldin, Alexandre Dumas, John William Polidori, et al.

Who are the literary ancestors of Dracula? How did the classic vampire--the tall, dark, elegant aristocrat with an endless life and an unquenchable thirst for blood--become a mass-media star? James Grant Goldin presents a curated anthology of the original texts, some freshly translated, that trace the evolution of the vampire lord in the 18th and 19th centuries. Newspaper accounts of "real" vampires in the Austro-Hungarian Empire bring word of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1733569006
• ISBN13: 9781733569002
• Release Date: July 2019
• Publisher: Basilisk Books
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"