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Slayers and their vampires : a cultural history of killing the dead / Bruce A. McClelland.
LIBRA GR830.V3 M23 2006
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McClelland, Bruce.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vampires--History.
- Vampires.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 260 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2006]
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-255) and index.
- ISBN:
- 047209923X
- 0472069233
- OCLC:
- 62330852
- Publisher Number:
- 9780472099238
- 9780472069231
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