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A Clutch of Vampires: These Being Among the Best from History & Literature
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Dark red hard cover by Bell Publishing, 1974. Gilt lettering. Ilus throughout with black and white sketches and some photos. The Vampire as he/she has appeared through legend, history, and literature.
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Before Buffy, before Twilight there was the Vampire. And this little tome details the history of such as mentioned in ancient Roman texts as well as the Romanian and Hungarian mythologies. What is a lovely bonus is that you also get Le Fanu's Carmilla which is a spine-tingling novella, as well as the unpublished opening chapter of Bram Stoker's Dracula. If you are interested in these monsters of myth and legend and want to see how the idea has developed over time, this is your book. It's a good
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McNally's books are required reading for the vampire collector.
Really excellent collection of vampire stories
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Raymond T McNally was an American author and professor of Russian and East European History at Boston College. He specialized in the history of horror and wrote many books around the subject.
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“A certain shoemaker one of the chief towns of Silesia, in the year 1591, September 20, on a Friday betimes in the morning, in the further part of his house, where there was adjoining a little garden, cut his own throat with his shoemaker's knife.”
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