Vampires, burial, and death
Surveys centuries of folklore about vampires and offers a scientific explanation for the origins of the legends.
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What Hacker News says
- If you'd prefer a more materialistic, more forensic (the author consulted LAPD during his research), approach to vampire mythology, I recommend Barber, Vampires, Burial, and Death: Folklore and Reality (1988).
Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a6YFwC2zKA
- If anyone is interested in the subject I can suggest "Vampires, burial and death" by Paul Barber. It's repetitive but good. In fact I have discovered this book on HN.
- Vampires, Burial, and Death: Folklore and Reality by Paul Barber. It's pretty much my Bible, and is all that needs to be said about the nature of my secularism. I tell people it's a cool book about vampire myths, though.
- This topic was covered extensively in Vampires, Burial, and Death, which is now on at least its second edition.
Rather similarly, Isle of the Dead (1945) concerned the plague and local superstition about the "vorvolaka," another vaguely vampish permutation.
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