{"product_id":"a-history-of-vampires-in-folklore-and-art-9781972807187","title":"A History of Vampires in Folklore and Art","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom bloated corpse to brooding count - the true history of the creature that refuses to stay dead\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA History of Vampires in Folklore and Art is a popular history in two parts: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart One: The Folklore\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe vampire of legend did not begin in Transylvania. It did not begin anywhere in particular, because it was not a single creature. It was an answer to a universal problem - death arriving in clusters, taking the young, moving through a village with something resembling intent, and leaving the living with no satisfactory explanation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcross the ancient world, every culture developed its own myths. The Mesopotamians had Lamashtu. The Norse and Anglo-Saxon chroniclers recorded the draugr. The Chinese had the jiangshi. West Africa had the sasabonsam and obayifo. The peoples of the Philippines, the Caribbean, the Mediterranean, and the Americas each had their version of life-stealing monsters hard to keep in the ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart One examines the historical records and folklore surrounding these myths and legends, and how they migrated from the ancient world to the new.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart Two: The Art\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe vampire emerges from the graveyards of ancient villages and enters popular culture via art and literature as a different creature. Writers and filmmakers sanitized these ancient beings, dressing them in suits and capes, giving them aristocratic manners and immortal weariness. They then put them to work as mirrors for whatever a given era feared or desired.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA History of Vampires in Folklore and Art is a full account of the most durable monster in the Western imagination - from village exhumations to the box office, from the corpse that would not stay dead to the creature that, across three centuries of popular culture, has refused to go out of style.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ovid Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/11\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781972807187\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 328\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.97lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d","brand":"Arthur Rauscher","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52774338232501,"sku":"9781972807187","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/a-history-of-vampires-in-folklore-and-art-9781972807187","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}