The Vampire a Tragedy in Five Acts and in Verse Second Edition

• Author : St. John DORSET (pseud. [i.e. Hugo Balfour.])
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 03 February 2023

• Author : J Gordon Melton
• Publisher : Visible Ink Press
• Release : 01 September 2010

The Ultimate Collection of Vampire Facts and Fiction From Vlad the Impaler to Barnabas Collins to Edward Cullen to Dracula and Bill Compton, renowned religion expert and fearless vampire authority J. Gordon Melton, PhD takes the reader on a vast, alphabetic tour of the psychosexual, macabre world of the blood-sucking undead. Digging deep into the lore, myths, pop culture, and reported realities of vampires and vampire legends from across the globe, The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead exposes

• Author : Barbara Brodman,James E. Doan
• Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
• Release : 03 February 2023

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.

• Author : JanetK. Halfyard
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 05 July 2017

The intense and continuing popularity of the long-running television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003) has long been matched by the range and depth of the academic critical response. This volume, the first devoted to the show's imaginative and widely varied use of music, sound, and silence, helps to develop an increasingly important and inadequately covered area of research - the many roles of music in contemporary television. In addressing this significant gap, this book provides an exemplary overview of

• Author : Meredith Woerner
• Publisher : Penguin
• Release : 03 November 2009

Now that millions have read and seen Twilight, where do they turn for vampire advice? This wry, witty, fully illustrated, and bloody essential guide. Vampires are all around-books, movies, TV, comics- infiltrating our culture like never before. But what happens if one should run into a real vamp on the street? Vampire Taxonomy is the best defense against a fatal encounter in the dark. For the reader's protection, Meredith Woerner reveals the truth about: ?Sunlight sensitivity-Do vamps venture out in

• Author : Zachary Huxley
• Publisher : Lulu.com
• Release : 03 February 2023

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : McFarland
• Release : 23 September 2015

This comprehensive bibliography covers writings about vampires and related creatures from the 19th century to the present. More than 6,000 entries document the vampire's penetration of Western culture, from scholarly discourse, to popular culture, politics and cook books. Sections by topic list works covering various aspects, including general sources, folklore and history, vampires in literature, music and art, metaphorical vampires and the contemporary vampire community. Vampires from film and television--from Bela Lugosi's Dracula to Buffy the Vampire Slayer, True Blood and

• Author : Anastasia Salter
• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
• Release : 06 April 2017

In the 1990s, the Personal Computer (or PC) was on the rise in homes, and with it came new genres of play. Yet most of the games in these new genres featured fantasylands or humorous science fiction landscapes with low stakes and little to suggest the potential of the PC as a serious space for art and play. Jane Jensen's work and landmark Gabriel Knight series brought a new darkness and personality to PC gaming, offering a first powerful glimpse

• Author : Larry Schliessmann
• Publisher : Larry Schliessmann
• Release : 21 February 2010

Abandoned in the Egyptian desert to die an infidel's death, mortally wounded Templar Knight Edwin Blutleer is rescued by an inhuman succubus.When his Templar comrades return to collect his corpse, they are stunned to find Blutleer alive, healed, and enraged. They betrayed the Templar Code: never leave a wounded brother behind. And he slaughters them to a man -- except one, who escapes. He is Blutleer's own cousin Pierre DeVeze.For 600 years, the immortal vampire Edwin Blutleer hunts and

• Author : Montague Summers
• Publisher : Courier Corporation
• Release : 01 January 2001

"Throughout the whole vast shadowy world of ghosts and demons there is no figure so terrible, no figure so dreaded and abhorred, yet [looked upon] with such fearful fascination, as the vampire, who is himself neither ghost nor demon, but yet who partakes the dark natures and possesses the mysterious and terrible qualities of both." So begins this riveting study by one of the foremost authorities on witchcraft and occult phenomena. An indefatigable researcher, Summers explores the presence of vampires

• Author : Abigail Lee Six
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 18 February 2019

Spanish Vampire Fiction since 1900: Blood Relations, as that subtitle suggests, makes the case for considering Spanish vampire fiction an index of the complex relationship between intercultural phenomena and the specifics of a time, place, and author. Supernatural beings that drink blood are found in folklore worldwide, Spain included, and writers ranging from the most canonical to the most marginal have written vampire stories, Spanish ones included too. When they do, they choose between various strategies of characterization or blend different

• Author : Timothy E. Parker
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release : 22 October 2010

An easy-to-do puzzle-packed guide tailored to the interests of the older generation Are you over the age of 55? Looking for some great crossword puzzles? Better yet, how about a collection of crosswords that is tailored to your interests? Look no further. This compilation of challenging and entertaining crossword puzzles is perfect for you if you want to challenge your brain, preserve mental fitness-or are just looking for some fun! It's a known fact that keeping the mind active and healthy

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : BRILL
• Release : 01 June 2017

Neo-Victorian Villains offers a varied and stimulating range of essays on the afterlives of Victorian villains in popular culture, exploring their representation and adaptation in neo-Victorian drama and fiction.

• Author : Sharon M. Gallagher
• Publisher : McFarland
• Release : 11 April 2017

 The origins of the vampire can be traced through oral traditions, ancient texts and archaeological discoveries, its nature varying from one culture to the next up until the 20th century. Three 19th century Irish writers—Charles Robert Maturin, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and Bram Stoker—used the obscure vampire of folklore in their fiction and developed a universally recognizable figure, culminating in Stoker’s Dracula and the vampire of today’s popular culture. Maturin, Le Fanu and Stoker did not

• Author : Tamikio L. Reardon
• Publisher : Tamikio L. Reardon
• Release : 26 March 2016

Everyone knows vampire aren't real right? Well, in the fiction supernatural tale, Supernatural Vampire Diaries, anything's possible. The battles and afflictions forced between vampire, shapeshifters, werewolves, and beast are unstoppable! Vampires must fight to save their identities and the world in which they have created. Who will win the victory? Discover to find out!