Vampires: From Vlad Drakul to the Vampire Lestat

by Anna Szigethy, Anne Graves

From folk tales to popular culture, Vampires chronicles the long history of these bloodthirsty creatures, both real and imagined, throughout the world. People`s fascination with vampires remains as strong today as it was centuries ago in Eastern Europe, and Vampires deftly explores the evolution of these seductive immortals from ancient history to popular contemporary culture. Beginning with the true stories of the cruel fourteenth-century Romanian prince Vlad Drakul, and the sixteenth-century "Blood Countess" Elizabeth Bathory, Vampires moves into the twentieth century to explore real-life murderers whose motives were the desire to drink the blood of their victims. Vampires also explores the fictional place of vampires in popular culture and, specifically, their proliferation in literature, television and film. Vampires includes four blood-chilling stories about vampires including a professed "true" account by the famous nineteenth-century occultist Franz Hartmann. Handsomely illustrated throughout, Vampires is an essential addition to the libraries of vampire enthusiasts everywhere.

Genres: Nonfiction, Vampires

208 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2004

Reviews

[LizzievRamirez · Rating 3 out of 5]

Entretenido, me gusto que se habla de vampiros desde diferentes puntos, el histórico, el pop o en la cultura de entretenimiento, literatura, mitos e incluso como lamentablemente algunos personas justificacion ciertos actos para cometer otros , en sí entretenido.

[Cyeba Alcala · Rating 5 out of 5]

El libro es muy interesante y me recordó mucho a las clases de Novela negra en la Universidad. Encontré un nuevo favorito: "La tumba de Sarah" de Loring y recordé tantas cosas que me voy con un muy buen sabor de boca.

[Diana · Rating 3 out of 5]

Es un libro pequeñito con información concisa sobre los vampiros en la cultura popular. No indaga demasiado en ningún tema en concreto, pero considero que podría servir como introducción a cualquiera que desee introducirse al mundo del vampirismo. Cabe aclarar que es un libro viejito, la información se detiene en los 2000, jajaja. Pero igual es interesante. Al final cuenta con tres relatos cortos sobre vampiros, entre ellos el ya famoso "El huésped de Dracula"

[Ivonne · Rating 3 out of 5]

Anna y Anne had done a great job searching information about real vampires here. Sometimes I felt like it was boring because of the way it was constructed the book. I mean, the way they structured and designed each page.

Some pages contained large images or maybe some watermarks that overshadowed the same stories.

[Travis · Rating 2 out of 5]

Picked it up at the used book store mainly as a Halloween decoration. The book itself is a shovelware history of vampires in myth, movies, books, and TV.

[Aida Monsalvez · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesante y entretenido, pero bastante básico. Le faltó un poquito más de profundidad

[A · Rating 4 out of 5]

It presented a lot of information on vampires in history, literature and film in a very simple way. It was very informative without being overbearing with big words so it was a perfect read for the Summer. If you're interested in discovering new literature or film on vampires, I recommend this.

[Nancy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another great find for Reference material...