Showing how vampire-like creatures organically formed in virtually every part of the world, The Vampire Almanac: The Complete History examines the historic, societal, and psychological role the vampire has played - and continues to play - in understanding death, man's deepest desires, and human pathologies.

Table of Contents

• Photo Sources
• Introduction
• The Vampire Way
• Origins of the Vampire
• Appearance of the Vampire
• Characteristics of the Vampire
• Crucifix
• Destroying the Vampire
• Dust
• Fangs
• Garlic
• Mirrors
• Protection against Vampires
• Psychic Vampirism
• Suicide
• Vision
• History
• Approaching the Vampire
• Real Vampires
• Christianity and Vampires
• Vampires through the Centuries
• Studying the Vampire
• Scholarly Perspectives of the Vampire
• Explanations of Vampirism
• Vampire Crime
• Political/Economic Vampires
• Sexuality and the Vampire
• Homosexuality and the Vampire
• Lesbian Vampires
• The Scholars
• Scholarly Organizations
• Vampires around the World
• Vampires! They’re Everywhere!
• The Americas
• Asia and Oceana
• Central and Eastern Europe
• Middle East and Africa
• Western and Northern Europe
• Dracula
• From Rural Transylvania to Ruler of the World’s Vampires
• Dracula the Legend
• Dracula the Novel
• Dracula’s Friends and Enemies (the Major Characters)
• Dracula’s Habitats
• The Vampire Onstage
• Introducting the Dramatic Vampire
• Balderston, John Lloyd
• Deane, Hamilton
• Dracula; or, The Un-Dead: A Play in Prologue and Five Acts
• Dracula: The Vampire Play in Three Acts
• Dumas, Alexandre
• Kelly, Tim
• Nodier, Charles
• Planché, James Robinson
• The Literary Vampire
• From Minor Poetic Concern to Fictional Hero and Heroine
• Banks, L. A.
• Beloved by Toni Morrison
• Bunnicula
• Byron, Lord George Gordon
• Carmilla
• Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
• Gautier, Théophile
• Good-Guy Vampires
• Holmes, Sherlock
• Juvenile and Young Adult Literature
• Keats, John
• Le Fanu, Sheridan
• Lee, Tanith
• Matheson, Richard
• Paranormal Romance Literature
• Poetry, Vampires in
• Polidori, John
• Ruthven, Lord
• Rymer, James Malcolm
• Saberhagen, Fred
• Saint Germain
• Science Fiction, Vampires in
• Southey, Robert
• Tolstoy, Alexey Konstantinovitch
• Varney the Vampire; or, The Feast of Blood
• Wolf, Leonard
• Modern Authors of the Vampire World
• Adrian, Lara
• Arthur, Keri
• Ashley, Amanda
• Bangs, Nina
• Bergstrom, Elaine
• Brewer, Zac (Heather)
• Caine, Rachel
• Cast, Kristin, and P(hyllis) C(hristine)
• Collins, Nancy A.
• Davidson, MaryJanice
• Elrod, P. N.
• Feehan, Christine
• Forrest, Bella
• Hamilton, Laurell K(aye)
• Harkness, Deborah
• Harris, Charlaine
• Harrison, Kim
• Holder, Nancy
• Huff, Tanya
• Jungman, Ann
• Kalogridis, Jeanne
• Kenyon, Sherrilyn
• Kikuchi, Hideyuki
• King, Stephen
• Lumley, Brian
• Mead, Richelle
• Miller, Linda Lael
• Neill, Chloe
• Newman, Kim
• Niles, Steve
• Pike, Christopher
• Pozzessere, Heather Graham
• Sands, Lynsay
• Shan, Darren
• Smith, L(isa) J(ane)
• Sommer-Bodenburg, Angela
• Somtow, S. P.
• Tan, Cecilia
• Ward, J. R.
• Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn
• Dracula in the Cinema
• Dracula on the Silver Screen
• Actors
• Movies
• Other Cinematic Vampires
• African American Vampire Films
• Bara, Theda
• Blacula
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer (movie)
• Chaney, Alonso “Lon”
• Cushing, Peter
• Dark Shadows (movie)
• Dreyer, Carl Theodore
• From Dusk till Dawn
• Hammer Films
• Hotel Transylvania
• London after Midnight
• Mexican and Latin American Films
• Rollin, Jean
• Schreck, Max
• Twenty-first Century Films
• Underworld
• Universal Pictures
• Vampyr
• What We Do in the Shadows
• Yorga, Count
• Vampire Book-to-Film Adaptations
• The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice
• Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
• The Vampire on TV
• Being Human
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer Television Series
• Bunnicula
• Count von Count
• Dark Shadows
• Forever Knight
• Lost Girl
• Midnight, Texas
• The Munsters
• NOS4A2
• Penny Dreadful
• The Strain
• True Blood
• Vampira
• The Vampire Diaries / The Originals / Legacies
• Vampirina
• Young Dracula
• Vampires in Pop Culture
• Atlanta Vampire Alliance
• Baron Blood
• Batman
• Belanger, Michelle
• Blade the Vampire Slayer
• Chapman, Erin
• Comic Books
• Dracula (Marvel Comics character)
• The Dracula Society (UK)
• Duckula, Count
• Frost, Deacon
• Games
• Glut, Donald Frank
• Hogg, Anthony John
• The Hollywood Vampires
• Humor
• Jacula
• Morbius
• New Orleans
• Preacher
• Ravenloft
• Riccardo, Martin V.
• Sebastian, Father
• The Tomb of Dracula
• Vamp
• Vampire Fandom
• Vampire: The Eternal Struggle
• Vampire: The Masquerade
• Vampire Weekend (rock band)
• Vampirella
• Vampires Everywhere! (rock band)
• Wolfman, Marv
• Youngson, Jeanne Keyes
• Further Reading