The Vampire
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The Vampire
By John William PolidoriJohn William Polidori. Chapter 3 Ruthven kept his promise to teach me how to live as a gentleman should . He took me to boxing matches and horse races . He let me sit in his box in the theater . He introduced me to drinking and gambling ...
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The Vampire: A New History
By Nick GroomWilliam Martin Leake, Travels in Northern Greece, 4 vols (London: J. Rodwell, 1835), iv. ... Gentleman's Magazine, 58 (1785), 804: see William Watson, 'An Account of a Disease Occasioned by Transplanting a Tooth', ...
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The Vampire: A Casebook
By Alan DundesLawson's work reflects this classification, for he discerns two corresponding concepts of the dead, which often had their own terminology and which create a distinction between revenants and vampires. Thus the depraved or sinful dead ...
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The Vampire: Origins of a European Myth
By Thomas M. BohnFrancis Hindes Groome, 'The Vampire: A Roumanian Gypsy Story', Journal of the Gypsy Lore Society 2(3) (1890): 142–48, at 142–46, reprinted in Francis Hindes Groome, Gypsy Folk-Tales (London, 1899), 14–19. Friedrich Müller, 'Beiträge zur ...
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The Vampire: His Kith and Kin
By Montague SummersThe Vampire: His Kith and Kin
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The Vampire: His Kith and Kin
By Montague SummersThe Vampire: His Kith and Kin is an academic study of vampires. Its author, Montague Summers, was at one time an Anglican priest, although his later religious affiliation and status is unknown.
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The Vampire
By Nick Groomrather than sparing: postprandial vampires were bloated, weeping blood. Their transubstantiation, then – if it can indeed be called that – was the conversion of living humans into undead vampires. In early accounts this was the result ...
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The Vampire: His Kith and Kin
By Montague Summers"I ministri di questi predendone esatta informazione, e formandone un giuridico processo ne vengono ad una sentenza finale contro al sudetto Vampiro, mediante la quale viene solennemente e con tutte le formole legali decretato: che il ...
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The Vampire: His Kith and Kin
By Montague SummersThe Vampire: His Kith and Kin
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The Vampire
By John William PolidoriThe story tries to expose the force of the fact that ordinary people do not believe in vampires; hence Lord Ruthven takes advantage of this situation to commit his bloodthirsty acts.
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The Vampire: A Casebook
By Alan DundesThe 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.
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The Vampire
By Raina SmithThrough his lifestyle and immortal experiences, Rex's heart-wrenching story is a reminder of the beauty, yet complexity of the human experience. As Rex learns, living as a vampire can be difficult, but dying is even harder.