Entries include vampires as profiled in television, film, art, literature, religion, and history, and comments on such relevant subjects as detecting and destroying vampires.
Covers such subjects as the history of the vampire legend; methods of finding, identifying, and destroying vampires; the origin and meaning of the accepted ways of resisting vampires; the importance of blood in vampiric lore; the role of the vampire bat; and the psychological-medical views on vampirism.
