Vampires, Burial, and Death Family & home stories (Children's / Teenage) and appendices

and appendices

An American Interest Book of the Year

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and comprehensive history of Rome from its founding in the eighth century BC through to Justinian in the sixth century CE

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Vampires, Burial, and Death Family & home stories (Children's / Teenage) and appendicesIn this engrossing book, Paul Barber surveys centuries of folklore about vampires and offers the first scientific explanation for the origins of the vampire legends. From the tale of a sixteenth century shoemaker from Breslau whose ghost terrorized everyone in the city, to the testimony of a doctor who presided over the exhumation and dissection of a graveyard full of Serbian vampires, his book is fascinating reading. "This study's comprehensiveness