The Vampire Book
Visible Ink Press (Verlag)
978-1-57859-281-4 (ISBN)
Death and immortality, sexual prowess and surrender, intimacy and alienation, rebellion and temptation. The allure of the vampire is eternal. The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead, 3rd edition, explores the historical, literary, mythological, biographical, and popular aspects of one of the world's most mesmerizing paranormal subject. This vast reference is an alphabetical tour of the psychosexual, macabre world of the soul-sucking undead.This exhaustive guide has more than 400 essays to quench your thirst for facts, biographies, definitions, and more.
J. Gordon Melton, a nationally known author, lecturer, and scholar, is the Distinguished Professor of American Religious History at Baylor University and serves as the director of the Institute for the Study of American Religion. Dr. Melton is best known for his work on religious cults, and he is considered America's senior scholar in the field of new and unconventional religions, having studied them for more than 40 years. Simultaneously, he has emerged as a leading scholar of vampire and Dracula studies and previously served a tenure as the American president of the Transylvanian Society of Dracula, an international association of vampire and Dracula scholars. He has authored multiple books in the field, two of which received the Lord Ruthven Award as the best nonfiction book in vampire studies. He currently resides in Waco, Texas, with his wife, Suzie.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 5.4.2013 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 1 Illustrations, unspecified |
| Verlagsort | Canton, MI |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 180 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 1500 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber |
| ISBN-10 | 1-57859-281-X / 157859281X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-57859-281-4 / 9781578592814 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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