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    Vampiric explorations

    Dec 03, 2020 3 minutes

    Encyclopedia of Vampire Mythology

    Theresa Bane

    McFarland 2019

    Pb, 207pp, £32.95, ISBN 9781476681771

    The Vampire

    A New History

    Nick Groom

    Yale University Press 2020

    Pb, 320pp, £9.99, ISBN 9780300254839

    Vampires must constitute the mythological success story of the past couple of centuries, rising from obscure and localised beginnings to spawn a continuing industry not just of novels, movies, tours and costumes but also of serious academic studies that bring into play a bewildering range of theories and methodologies.

    The two works reviewed here both deal mainly with what people have thought

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