The Vampire: His Kith And Kin - Montague Summers

A classic study on the history of the Vampire.This book has all of the apparatus to qualify as an academic study, including footnotes, extensive quotations in the original languages, and references to rare
source documents.

In all the darkest pages of the malign supernatural there is no more terrible tradition than that of the Vampire, a pariah even among demons. Foul are his ravages; gruesome and seemingly barbaric are the ancient and approved methods by which folk must rid themselves of this hideous pest. Even to-day in certain quarters of the world, in remoter districts of Europe itself, Transylvania, Slavonia, the isles and mountains of Greece, the peasant will take the law into his own bands and utterly destroy the carrion who–as it is yet firmly believed–at night will issue from his unhallowed grave to spread the infection of vampirism throughout the countryside.