The Vampire: In Legend, Fact and Art

by Basil Copper

Copper tends to take a condescending attitude toward those poor ignorant, superstitious peasants who believed in vampires that I found rather grating. Aside from this, the book rehashes a lot of Summers and is neatly organized, covering vampire folklore, literature, film and theatre. The final section, "Vampires in Fact", discusses the same criminal pathology cases that everyone else does, such as Fritz Haarman, John Haigh, and Sargeant Bertrand, and concludes with an account of the Highgate Cemetery "vampire hunting" shennanigans.

Softbound Carol Pub. Corp. (1989)