![]() ![]() ![]() The main value of this most interesting book is to remind us how far we have come in our ability to explain the world and how this has released us from at least some terrors.”―Anthony Daniels, Spectator “A splendid book about the undead, illuminated by the findings of morbid anatomy…. “Barber’s inquiry into vampires, fact and fiction, is a gem in the literature of debunking… a convincing exercise in mental archaeology.”―Roy Porter, Nature “This study’s comprehensiveness and the author’s bone-dry wit make this compelling reading, not just for folklorists, but for anyone interested in a time when the dead wouldn’t stay dead.”―Booklist ![]() From the tale of a sixteenth-century shoemaker from Breslau whose ghost terrorized everyone in the city, to the testimony of a doctor who presided over the exhumation and dissection of a graveyard full of Serbian vampires, his book is fascinating reading. In this engrossing book, Paul Barber surveys centuries of folklore about vampires and offers the first scientific explanation for the origins of the vampire legends. ![]()
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