Slayers and their vampires

McClelland, Bruce.

Slayers and their vampires a cultural history of killing the dead / [electronic resource] : Bruce A. McClelland. - Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2006. - xviii, 260 p. : ill., maps.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-255) and index.

Introduction -- Back from the dead : monsters and violence -- Conversion in the Balkans : a thousand years of the vampire -- Scapegoats and demons : a thousand years of the vampire, continued -- Into the West : from folklore to literature -- Seers and slayers -- Seeing the dead -- The rational slayer -- From Vienna to London -- The slayer generation.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.





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