The Vampire

The VampireEven before Bram Stoker immortalized Transylvania as the homeland of his fictional Count Dracula, the figure of the vampire was inextricably tied to Eastern Europe in the popular imagination. Drawing on a wealth of previously neglected sources, this book offers a fascinating account of how vampireswhose various incarnations originally emerged from folk traditions from all over the worldbecame so strongly identified with Eastern Europe. It demonstrates

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