VAMPIRES RESOURCES

WEBSITES

Fanglady's Vampyre Castle

The Shadowlands - Vampire page
Articles and links on Vampires.

Vampirism Research Institute
While this website has been dismantled, several of the main articles remain that are useful.

The Vampires Vault
Many useful links and articles on the topic.

ARTICLES

Jaffe, P.D. & DiCataldo, F. (1994). "Clinical vampirism: Blending myth and reality." Bulletin of American Academy of Psychiatry & the Law, 22(4), 533-44. Vampires arouse strong popular interest and attract large print and film audiences. Their influence is also notable in clinical vampirism, a rare condition described in the forensic literature covering some of humanity’s most shocking behaviors. Definitions of vampirism involve aspects of necrophilia, sadism, cannibalism, and a fascination with blood. Its relationships with established diagnostic categories, particularly schizophrenia and psychopathy, are also examined and illustrated by the presentation of a "modern" vampire. As myth and reality are disentangled, clinical vampirism reveals the complex mother-child dyad’s blood ties running amok.

BOOKS

Ashley, L.R.N. (1998). The complete book of vampires. Barricade Books. From Bram Stoker’s Dracula to television’s, "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," you will find both the frivolous and the serious in this readable book.

Auerbach, N. (1997). Our vampires, ourselves. University of Chicago Press.

Gordon, J. & Hollinger, V. with Aldise, B. (eds.). (1997). Blood read: The vampire as metaphor in contemporary culture. University of Pennsylvania Press. This book is helpful in understanding the evolution of vampiric themes and images. It discusses transformations of images from Dracula to Anne Rice’s characters, showing how the latter reflects postmodern culture.

Heldreth, L.G. & Pharr, M. (eds.). (1999). The Blood is Life: Vampires in literature.

Malchow, H.L. (1996). Gothic images of race in nineteenth-century Britain. Stanford University Press. This book, according to Barnes and Noble, "explores both the gothicization of race and the racialization of the gothic as inseparable processes." Malchow believes the "gothic genre and language provide racists, consciously or unconsciously with a continued evocation of terror, disgust, and alienation."

Morton, J.G. (1998). Vampire book: The encyclopedia of the undead. Visible Ink Press. Four years of research on the part of this religious historian went into making this the most complete and authentic volume on vampires. Covers the cultural history of the vampire as well as noting vampire societies worldwide.

Stoker, B. & Skal, D.J. & Auerbach, N. (eds.). (1997). Dracula: Authoritative text contexts reviews and reactions; dramatic and film variations and criticism. Norton Press.

Dean Borgman cCYS