The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead, 3rd Edition
The most comprehensive collection of vampire lore, with entries on everything from African Vampires to Yama, the God of Death.
Chicago Tribune
An excellent reference. This remarkable amalgam of the popular and the scholarly is highly recommended.
Choice
Anything and everything you ever wanted or needed to know about vampires is found within this massive 900-page reference. The mere writing of such a massive undertaking as this book would be a seemingly impossible task, but the author pulls it off nicely ... I highly recommend this book.
Horror Classics Book Review
This impressive compendium is a valuable addition to the library of anyone interested in researching vampires or vampirism.
Journal of American Folklore
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.
In the first fully revised and updated edition in a decade, Dr. J. Gordon Melton (president of the American chapter of the Transylvania Society of Dracula) bites even deeper into vampire lore, myths, reported realities, and legends that come from all around the world. From Vlad the Impaler to Dracula and from modern literature to movies and TV series like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, True Blood, Twilight, and The Vampire Lestat, this exhaustive guide furnishes more than 400 essays to quench your thirst for facts, biographies, definitions, and more.
About J. Gordon Melton
Author J. Gordon Melton is a nationally known author, lecturer and scholar, best known for his work on religious cults. He is considered America's senior scholar in the field of new and unconventional religions, having studied them for more than 25 years. He is a director of the Institute for the Study of American Religions and a research specialist with the Department of Religious Studies at University College, Santa Barbara. He has written a number of books on new and unconventional religions and maintains a foot firmly planted in the paranormal.
