The Vampire, His Kith and Kin by Montague Summers. This book is available in many forms. An abridged version is available free on the internet at this address: http://www.unicorngarden.com/vampires.htm Another version is found here: http://www.dagonbytes.com/vampires/history/summers/summersorigin.htm
The Vampire in Europe by Montague Summers
The Werewolf by Montague Summers
Anti-Vampire by Mario Corte translated into english on his website: http://www.digamma.com/cav/antivampire/
Emotional Vampires by Al Bernstein http://www.albernstein.com/id55.htm
Look at this interesting link: How to Protect Yourself: http://psy.rin.ru/eng/article/145-101.html
Vampire Hunter's Handbook by Sean Manchester http://www.gothicpress.freeserve.co.uk/
The Vampire Encyclopedia by Matthew Bunson http://www.walkingthenight.com/Literature/vampency.html
The Vampire: A Casebook Edited by Alan Dundes http://www.reviewcentre.com/reviews23382.html
Food For the Dead: On the Trail of New England's Vampires by Michael E. Bell http://www.seacoastnh.com/dead/foodforthedead.html
The Garlic Book by Stephen Fulder, PhD
Porphyria by Tammy Evans http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/3095/
Silversmithing by Finegold and Seitz http://www.silverspiderforge.com/silversmithing.html
The "Demonologie" of James VI http://www.geocities.com/pagantheology/james/
For free online texts such as The Bible and related Christian Texts:
http://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/index.htm
Shurangama Sutra : A Buddhist Text which mentions vampires and demonic possession. http://hjem.get2net.dk/civet-cat/mahayana-writings/shurangama-sutra.htm
A series of texts can be found online here as well: http://www.sacred-texts.com/goth/
The Vampire, his Kith and Kin, by Montague Summers. [1928]
Summers, a devout and very literal Catholic, was apparently convinced of the reality of the undead. This work is a serious, often pedantic, academic review of the literature. However, it is required reading for any prospective vampire experts.
The Book of Were-Wolves, by Sabine Baring-Gould. [1865]
All killer, some filler. This is one of the best known studies of lycanthropy, written by the author of the hymn 'Onward Christian Soldiers.' The first ten chapters are a pretty good review of the shape-shifting literature, and then it takes a strange left turn into the topic of psychopathy.
Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley [1818]
It's alive! This modern reworking of the Golem story is a cautionary tale about science. Frankenstein just keeps getting more relevant as we stumble forward into the 21st Century of clones, stem cells and genomics.
The Vampyre, by John Polidori [1819]
Originally spuriously attributed to Lord Byron, this was actually written by Dr. John William Polidori, a physician friend of Lord Byron. The main character of Ruthven is reputedly based on Byron. This short novel caused a sensation at the time, and spawned a vampire craze, with numerous books and plays based on or imitating its story line. For more information, refer to Chapter V of The Vampire, his Kith and Kin.
Dracula by Bram Stoker [1897]
Dracula, not Ruthven, is the template for the modern vampire craze. This novel, in the form of fictional journals and letters, was not the first or even the best 19th Century vampire tale, but is today the best known, due to the endless number of movies based on it. Today we know that Dracula had a mediaeval counterpart, Vlad the Impaler, who actually lived in Romania, in the Transylvanian area; although not an actual vampire, he was said to have spilled quite a bit of blood in his day.
Vikram and The Vampire, translated by Sir Richard R. Burton. [1870]
This collection of Hindu fables, which has an Arabian Nights-style backstory with a legendary Indian monarch playing Scheherazade to an undead being, doesn't have much to do with vampires, but this seemed the best place to put it.
The Book of Enoch http://www.ccel.org/c/charles/otpseudepig/enoch/ENOCH_1.HTM
Vampire Watcher's Handbook by Craig Glenday http://www.vampires.nu/pages/Books.cfm/ID/1822/PageID/22
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