The Tale Of The Living Vampyre

The nineteenthcentury vampire has been inadequately studied until now being usually investigated mainly as a precursor to twentieth and twentyfirst fictions. On the contrary this book studies the vampire of the nineteenth century free of any reference to later developments exploring instead other key topics such as the origins of the vampire in Icelandic and other medieval European texts issues of gender and sex and because the vampire is almost always treated solely as egotistical maniacal a