{"product_id":"blood-and-bone-9781918177343","title":"Blood and Bone","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor two centuries the vampire has been the most anatomically detailed monster in fiction - and almost no one has taken its body seriously. This book does.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBlood and Bone\u003c\/em\u003e is a speculative physiology of the undead: a straight-faced dissection of the great vampires of literature and film, from Polidori's moonlit Lord Ruthven and Le Fanu's Carmilla to Stoker's reflectionless Count, the plague-rat frame of Nosferatu's Orlok, Anne Rice's marble-skinned Lestat, and the crystalline Edward Cullen. Treating each creature as a specimen on the table, it asks how such a body could actually work - how it feeds, how it heals, why sunlight annihilates one vampire and merely inconveniences another - and reconstructs, organ by organ, the impossible biology that fiction never troubled to explain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcross chapters on circulation without a heartbeat, venom and viral transformation, corpse-skin and crystalline flesh, it assembles a comparative natural history of creatures that were never alive: a full taxonomy of the undead, complete with charts, tables, and a programme of original anatomical plates in the tradition of Vesalius and Gray.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAffectionate, rigorous, and gleefully macabre, \u003cem\u003eBlood and Bone\u003c\/em\u003e is popular science for monsters - a field guide to the anatomy of the imagination, for readers of gothic fiction, horror cinema, pop-culture criticism, and speculative biology alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rondanini Publishing Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/24\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781918177343\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 228\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.94lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.59d","brand":"Luigi Pascal Rondanini","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53514326704309,"sku":"9781918177343","price":38.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/9781918177343.jpg?v=1791903624","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/blood-and-bone-9781918177343","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}