KILLING THE DEAD: Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World

Provides a global account of one of the world's most widespread yet misunderstood forms of mass hysteria--the vampire epidemic. From ancient Mesopotamia to present-day Haiti, explore a macabre frontier of life and death where corpses are believed to wander or do harm from the grave, and where the vampire symbolizes society's terrors and anxieties. Well illustrated, some in color.