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Slayers and their vampires : a cultural history of killing the dead / Bruce McClelland.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McClelland, Bruce, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vampires--History.
- Vampires.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (281 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2006
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Exploring how the vampire slayer began, this book goes further to ask why the true history of the vampire slayer has been so long ignored. It is of interest to fans of Dracula, vampire, Buffy, Anne Rice, and Anita Blake lore, and to students of anthropology, sociology, European religious history, and Slavistics.
- 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:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- ISBN:
- 1-282-59778-7
- 9786612597787
- 0-472-02623-2
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