Vampire fiction has a long and distinguished pedigree in English. From the moment that Robert Southey introduced the British Isles to the concept of the coffin-sleeping undead at the turn of the 19th ...

Gary D. Rhodes has done his due diligence as a researcher and is set on doing some scholarly house-cleaning, devoting his first chapter to righting the historical record.

The Victorian era was an age of scientific advancement and rigid social mores, but it was also a time of superstition and fear. Stories of vampires haunting the countryside were more than just gothic ...