Recommended Vampire Non-Fiction
Explore the best recommended vampire non-fiction books with our curated list. Discover gripping tales, historical accounts, and expert analyses of vampire lore and legends.
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Vampires, Burial, and Death
by Paul Barber
Surveys centuries of folklore about vampires and offers a scientific explanation for the origins of the legends.
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The Vampire
by Alan Dundes
Vampires are the most fearsome and fascinating of all creatures of folklore. For the first time, detailed accounts of the vampire and how its tradition developed in different cultures are gathered in one volume by eminent folklorist Alan Dundes. Eleven leading scholars from the fields of Slavic studies, history, anthropology, and psychiatry unearth the true nature of the vampire from its birth in graveyard lore to the modern-day psychiatric patient with a penchant for drinking blood. The Vampire: A Casebook takes this legend out of the realm of literature and film and back to its dark beginnings in folk traditions. The essays examine the history of the word “vampire;” Romanian vampires; Greek vampires; Serbian vampires; the physical attributes of vampires; the killing of vampires; and the possible psychoanalytic underpinnings of vampires. Much more than simply a scary creature of the human imagination, the vampire has been and continues to haunt the lives of all those who encounter it—in reality or in fiction.
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The Vampire Book
by J. Gordon Melton
This book takes the reader on a vast, alphabetic tour of the psychosexual, macabre world of the blood-sucking undead. From Vlad the Impaler to Barnabas Collins to Dracula and Lestat, it supplies nearly 500 exhaustive essays illustrated with more than 250 photos. A very thorough unearthing of the vampire through the ages, this guide relies on a collection of 2,000 titles on vampires, digging deep into the lore, the myths, and the reported realities of vampires and vampire legends from around the world.
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The Vampire in Europe
by Montague Summers
Renowned occultist and clergyman Montague Summers explores the realm of Dracula and comes up with some shocking possibilities as well as "true tales" of terror from places including England, Ireland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, and Greece.--From publisher description.
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The Vampires
by Montague Summers
Summers explores the kith and kin of vampires by providing stories from ancient times to the present.
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Dracula
by Bram Stoker
This Norton Critical Edition presents fully annotated the text of the 1897 First Edition.
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Hollywood Gothic
by David J. Skal
This book examines the history of the story of Dracula, and discusses the conflicts and battles encountered while developing the story into stage and screen productions
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The Vampire Film
by Alain Silver
In this greatly expanded third edition, Alain Silver and James Ursini turn their gaze for the first time upon the vampire films released during the past five years, including Interview with the Vampire and Vampire in Brooklyn.
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The Vampire in Verse
by Steven Moore
This collection of poetry about vampires includes works by Goethe, Coleridge, Byron, Keats, Baudelaire, Kipling, Fitzgerald, Yeats, and more.
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Dracula - the Shade and the Shadow
by Elizabeth Miller
Papers presented at Dracula 97, a centenary celebration at Los Angeles, August 1997.
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Bloodsucking Witchcraft
by Hugo G. Nutini
In the rural areas of south-central Mexico, there are believed to be witches who transform themselves into animals in order to suck the blood from the necks of sleeping infants. This book analyzes beliefs held by the great majority of the population of rural Tlaxcala a generation ago and chronicles its drastic transformation since then. "The most comprehensive statement on this centrally important ethnographic phenomenon in the last forty years. It bears ready comparison with the two great classics, Evans-Pritchard's Witchcraft Among the Azande and Clyde Kluckhohn's Navaho Witchcraft."Ă‘Henry H. Selby
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Vampires and Vampirism
by Dudley Wright
Vampires and Vampirism is part of the canon of works on the folklore of vampires. Inside these pages are many accounts of the presence of nocturnal creatures with an unnatural hunger. Readers will discover that tales of vampires are whispered not only in the sleepy villages of easternand central Europe but also in the Middle East, the Asian sub-continent, and the isles of Great Britain.
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American Vampires
by Norine Dresser
Explores the American fascination with vampire folklore, interviewing those whose obsession ends with watching "Dark Shadows" and receiving vampire newsletters to those who drink warm human blood, and surveys the commercial vampire product industry
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The Essential Dracula
by Bram Stoker
An essay on the history of the vampire myth in literature accompanies an annotated version of the classic vampire tale.
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The Vampire Lectures
by Laurence A. Rickels
Rickles, a UC Santa Barbara professor, sifts through mythology of vampirism, from folklore to Marilyn Manson, to explore the profound and unconscious appeal of the undead in an original and intellectual look at vamps.