In 1900, Icelandic publisher and writer Valdimar Ásmundsson set out to translate Bram Stoker's world-famous 1897 novel Dracula. Called Makt Myrkranna (literally, "Powers of Darkness"), this Icelandic edition included an original preface written by Stoker himself. Makt Myrkranna …
Christopher Frayling has spent 45 years exploring the history of one of the most enduring figures in the history of mass culture - the vampire. This book is a comprehensive and generously illustrated history and anthology of vampires in literature, from the folklore of Eastern E…
Since the seventeenth century, people have been frightened, mesmerized, and fascinated by the terrifying tales of vampires. In this book, you'll uncover the history and mystery behind these bloodthirsty monsters with folklore, mythology, and poetry from every tradition in the wo…
Dracula
by Cazacu, Matei, Nizet, Marie
fromEast Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450
Dracula
by Cazacu, Matei, Cazacu, Matei
fromEast Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450
"Originally published in French in 2004, Matei Cazacu's Dracula remains the most authoritative scholarly biography of the Wallachian prince Vlad III the Impaler (1448, 1456-1462, 1476). Its core is an exhaustively researched reconstruction of Dracula's life and political career,…
