Finding Vampires
Parents always dread when their child will ask them the inevitable question: where do vampires come from? A number of people have undertaken to answer that question, and Mark Collins Jenkins attempts it with aplomb. Vampire Forensics: Uncovering the Origins of an Enduring Legend is quite a romp through the fields of the undead. Ranging from the chewing dead through epidemics, Montague Summers, movies, Varney the vampire, the origin of the word “vampire,” where zombies come from, and practices of dealing with corpses, this study may not convince the reader that the ...