Avery’s Reviews > Killing the Dead: Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World > Status Update

My only criticism so far and the most glaring and negative is the lack of background or folkloric context of early Northern European death rituals. I understand that there is a lack of written records and Christianization was a massively diverging force but not one monk in some monastery or a sister in a nunnery committed himself or herself to documenting local folklore or death rituals? Find that hard to believe.

Refreshing to read intelligently written new release nonfiction. A well articulated, well supported (so fat anyway) thesis, and no “hello fellow kids” attempt at writing a pop history, and no attempts to weave in any personal narrative. Strictly academic yet approachable.