The Everything Vampire Book by Karg, Barb -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Contents Top Ten Things You’ll Learn about Vampires Introduction 1: Masters of Immortality

“Children of the Night . . . What Music They Make” “I Am Dracula . . . I Bid You Welcome” “I Never Drink . . . Wine” “Evil Is a Point of View” “To Die . . . That Must Be Glorious” “You Know Too Much to Live”

2: Vampires in Lore

Live Long and Prosper European Bloodsuckers Greek Origins Slavic Vampires The Romanian Influence Germanic Vampires Creatures of the United Kingdom Latin American Vampires Fangs in the Far East The Indian Effect Vampire Lore in America Vampires International From Here to Eternity

3: Stoking the Flames

Early Writings of the Undead The Vampyre Varney the Vampyre “Carmilla” The Obscure Road to Fame The Dark Side Formulating Dracula Establishing Vampiric Legacy

4: Dear Diary . . .

To Live and Die in Romania Abraham Van Helsing Jonathan Harker Mina Murray Lucy Westenra Dr. Jack Seward Quincey P. Morris Arthur Holmwood R. M. Renfield Dracula Unleashed Death and Immortality

5: Vlad the Impaler

A Tale of Two Vlads The Real Dracula Dragon Tales The Caprice of Power Deception by Decree War with a Vengeance Hero of Heretic?

6: In Search of Dracula

Fiendish Facts and Fabrications Was Vlad Dracula Really a Vampire? Dracula Under Fire He Did What? Surveying the Landscape The Real Castle Dracula Bite Me!

7: Vampires Unbound

How Vampires Are Created The Fear Factor Epidemic Proportion Blood Is the Life The Power of Hypnosis Establishing a Lair Smooth Operators

8: Vampire Characteristics

Fangs, Coffins, and Hellspawn Habits Bring Out Your Dead! Superhuman Powers What’s in a Name? Dressing the Part Animal Instincts Fear No Evil

9: Protection and Destruction

Combating an Immortal Practical Protection Hallowed Weapons Mirror, Mirror on the Wall How to Kill a Vampire Watch Your Ash

10: Vampire Hunters

The Quintessential Slayer Literary Slayers You Slay Me The Vampire Hunter’s Kit How to Catch a Vampire The Highgate Vampire Famous Vampirologists Kiss of Death

11: Once Bitten, Twice Shy

The Chronicles of William of Newburgh Erzébet Bathóry Henry More Peter Plogojowitz Arnod Paole The Vampire of Croglin Grange Fangs for the Memories

12: Vampiric Crimes

Early Vampiristic Crimes Staking a Claim The Vampire of London The Vampire of Hannover The Düsseldorf Vampire Vampires Unleashed

13: The Literary Vampire

Shadows and Light Les Vampires de Anne Rice Popular Vampire Fiction The Romantic Vampire Paranormal Nosferatu Comedic Bloodsuckers Young-adults and the Living Dead The Enormity of Buffyverse The Heartbeat Goes On Preternatural Explosion

14: The Genesis of Celluloid Vampires

Bloodsucking Cinema Silent But Deadly Nosferatu: The Scourge of Bremen Enter Dracula, Stage Right Hammering Out Horror Going Batty

15: Legendary Blood Drinkers

I Vant to Suck Your Blood! The Vampire Hall of Fame Here Come the Brides The Early Vixens of Vampirism Bloodthirsty Babes Gone Berserk Fun with Vampirism From Here to Eternity

16: Reel-Time Vampirism: The Silent Era Through the Swinging Sixties

Silver Screen Suckers The Silent Era The 1930s: The Dawn of Dracula The 1940s: The Comedy of Horror The 1950s: Bat Out of Hell The 1960s: Revival of the Fittest From Damned to Decadent

17: Reel-Time Vampirism: The Seventies Through the New Millennium

The Vampire in Modern Cinema The 1970s: Love, Lust, and the Ludicrous The 1980s: Horror Heaven The 1990s: From Rage to Riches The New Millennium: Preternatural Revolution From Big Screen to Small Screen

18: Small-Screen Bloodsuckers

Early Television Vampires The Munsters Dark Shadows Made-for-Television Vamps Prime Time Bloodsuckers Kiddie Nosferatu Fanged and Flamboyant

19: Modern-Day Vampirism

Types of Vampires The Exotic, Erotic Bloodsucker Psyche It to Me What’s Your Type? Fangs for the Chat! Music for Nightcrawlers The Vampire Gamer The Dark Side of Comic Books Forever and the Night

20: So You Want to Be a Vampire?

The Downside of Immortality Tales from the Crypt Preternatural Diet Bloody Good Show Is Your Neighbor a Nosferatu? Gypsies, Vamps, and Seas

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