Vampires and Vampirism: Legends from Around the World (Classics of Preternatural History)

by Dudley Wright

Another reprint edition of Wright's work.
Originally published in 1914, Wright's work represented the first in-depth attempt in English to compile vampire folklore from around the world and through history, and present various theories of vampirism. In 1924 a revised, expanded edition was published, which Montague Summers (The Vampire in Europe, The Vampire: His Kith and Kin) utilized in his own research. Wright, a historian of Freemasonry and Spiritualism, also introduced the general reading public to the concepts of "living vampires" ("sorcerers" who could travel astrally and steal blood) and psychic or sexual vampires.

Softbound Lethe Press (2001)