Creatures of the Night: In Search of Ghosts, Vampires, Werewolves and Demons Contributor(s): Reece, Gregory L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1848853858 ISBN-13: 9781848853850 Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company OUR PRICE: $22.72 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2012 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Science Fiction & Fantasy - Social Science | Popular Culture |
Dewey: 133 |
Physical Information: 0.67" H x 5.43" W x 8.48" (0.54 lbs) 224 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Vampires and werewolves; phantoms and phantasms: looming out of the fog leaps the menacing spectre of the lycanthrope, ghoul or blood-crazed zombie. Intrigued by some of the most sinister, yet at the same time most compelling, legends of western civilization, Gregory L Reece dusts down his stake and crucifix, loads his silver bullets and takes off into the wilds in search of answers and fresh adventures. Rummaging around in crumbling tombs and cobwebbed sarcophagi, his latest quest leads him into the haunted realm of the dead and the undead: of those carnivorous, nocturnal hunters that might perhaps better be left undisturbed. Why, he asks, is our culture obsessed by the eerie and the macabre? Why, despite its horrors, does the 'dark side' of the supernatural - its seances and ghost-hunting, demonic possession and the occult - call to us with such dangerous allure? Whether tracking night-stalking werewolves, chanting black magic mantras with Satanists, or interviewing a funereal modern-day Count Dracula, Reece is determined to uncover the truth. |