The Book of Vampires (Dover Books on Anthropology and Folklore)

by Dudley Wright

Yet another re-issue of this classic work, very economically priced.

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 Dover Publications (April 2006)
	Hardcover Omnigraphics (August 1989)