Vampires and Vampirism

The vampire across cultures - the Slavic revenant, the classical lamia, the trials and exhumations of eighteenth-century Serbia, and the medical explanations offered since. Wright collects the documents rather than the fiction. This edition is bound with 59 plates of painting, among them works by Caspar David Friedrich, Gustave Doré and Odilon Redon, dating from 1470 to 1904.