Vampire Gallery: A Who's Who of the Undead

by J. Gordon Melton

Presents profiles of famous vampires since the 18th century, including Barnabas Collins, Count Dracula, Lord Ruthven, and Graf Orlock

Genres: Vampires, Reference, Nonfiction

500 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 1998

About the author

John Gordon Melton is an American religious scholar who was the founding director of the Institute for the Study of American Religion and is currently a research specialist in religion and New Religious Movements with the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is a Distinguished Senior Fellow at Baylor University's Institute for Studies of Religion.

His areas of research include major religious traditions, new religions and alternative religions, Occultism and Parapsychology, New Age, and vampirology.

Melton has been criticized by several scholars for what they see as conflicts of interest in his reporting of some of the groups he studies.

Reviews

[Lana Lazar · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very concise, very useful research tool

[angrykitty · Rating 4 out of 5]

i love vampires....not as much as werewolves, but still....this is a better book than the vampire encyclopedia, but both are pretty cool.

[Christine · Rating 5 out of 5]

in a word--fascinating