The Vampire Encyclopedia by Matthew Bunson (1993).pdf

MATTHEW BUNSON

GRAMERCY BOOKS

New York

form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording,

or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing

from the publisher.

This 2000 edition is published by Gramercy Books, an imprint of Random House

Value Publishing, a division of Random House, Inc., New York, by arrangement

with Three Rivers Press, a division of Crown Publishers, Inc., a member of

Random House, Inc.

Gramercy is a registered trademark and the colophon is a trademark of Random

House, Inc.

Book design by Mercedes Everett

Printed in the United States of America

Random House

New York • Toronto • London • Sydney • Auckland

www.randomhouse.com

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Bunson, Matthew.

The vampire encyclopedia / Matthew Bunson.

p. cm.

Includes biographical references and index.

ISBN 0-517-16206-7

1. Vampires—Encyclopedias. I. Title.

GR830.V3 B86 2000

398'.45—dc21

00-039366

987654

This book is dedicated to Vincent Price.

Acknowledgments

I would like also to acknowledge the many individuals who as-

sisted in the preparation of this work. Among them are Frank

Langella; Chris Sarandon; Julie Carmen, who is truly beautiful

under all that makeup in Fright Night II; Terry Saevig of Columbia

Pictures; Jennifer Sebree of MCA Universal; Katherine Orloff, pub-

licity director for Bram Stoker's Dracula; Kathy Lendech of Turner

Entertainment; Ron and Howard Mandelbaum of Photofest; the

free people of Romania, in particular Bogdan Vasilescu, director of

the Romanian National Tourist Office in New York; Jane Freeburg,

of Companion Press, Santa Barbara; Dr. Jeanne Youngson and

Anne Hart of Vampires Are Us; Charlotte Simsen of the Quincey P.

Morris Dracula Society; Dr. Donald A. Reed of the Count Dracula

Society; Alys Lynn Mundorff; Russell Lyster; Ronald V. Borst; Sue

Quiroz, assistant to Anne Rice; Abraham Pokrassa of the Roland

Company; Eric Held of the Vampire Information Exchange; John

Vellutini; the people and governments of Greece, Indonesia, and

the Philippines; and a special thanks to Jane Meara of Crown

Books, whose vision and enthusiasm made this project a delightful

experience.

vii

Introduction

The late 1980s and early 1990s have witnessed an eruption of

interest in the undead greater than any other vampire craze of

modern times: larger than epidemics of vampire fascination in

America and Europe during the 1970s or in Paris during the

1820s when there were stage plays, comedies, musicals, and

translations of John Polidori's influential 1819 short story, "The

Vampyre" (and where it was said by one writer that "One can

see vampires everywhere!"). In 1992 alone, there were novels,

including Anne Rice's The Tale of the Body Thief, and several major

films, including Innocent Blood, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and, of

course, Bram Stoker's Dracula. Vampire societies and organizations

are thriving. Bands, playing so-called Gothic Rock, featuring

"vampire" singers and musicians, blast out their throbbing, hyp-

notic ballads to enthralled vampire wannabes in the dark, moody

bowels of clubs in American and European cities. There are vam-

pire books, posters, toys, games, new editions of the novel Drac-

ula, records, and even an Annie Lennox music video called "Love

Song for a Vampire."

The Vampire Encyclopedia is intended to fill a definite need in

vampirology for a handy, single-volume reference source on vam-

pires that is interesting, comprehensive, and easy to use. The casual

reader or anyone recently introduced to the world of the blood-

sucker will find a detailed compendium on vampires in film, lit-

erature, folklore, poetry, art, medicine, religion, and comedy.

Students of the undead will find much that is familiar and much

that is new. In this book you will find traditional vampires, psy-

chic vampires, historical vampires, and vampires in shapes only

dreamed of in the nightmares of the greatest writers of the last

two centuries. Above all, The Vampire Encyclopedia is intended

to be fun, written affectionately in the spirit both of the esteemed

Plik z chomika:

Inne pliki z tego folderu:

Inne foldery tego chomika: