Book of Donmon Teith

While vampire stories have been part of popular culture since the beginning of the nineteenth century, it has been in recent decades that they have become a cen

Examines the enormous popular appeal of vampires from early Greek and Slavic folklore to present-day popular culture.

Since the publication of John Polidori's The Vampyre (1819), the vampire has been a mainstay of Western culture, appearing consistently in literature, art, musi

Preliminary Material --Introduction /Peter Day --Legend of the Vampire --Getting to know the Un-dead: Bram Stoker, Vampires and Dracula /Elizabeth Miller --"One

The vampire is one of the nineteenth century's most powerful surviving archetypes, owing largely to Bela Lugosi's portrayal of Dracula, the Bram Stoker creation