Vampires and Vampirism

✍ Scribed by Dudley Wright

• Book ID: 110582042
• Publisher: William Rider and Son, Limited
• Year: 1914
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 778 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

The awakened interest in supernormal phenomena which has
taken place in recent years has included in its wake the absorbing
subject of Vampirism. Yet there has not been any collection
published of vampire stories which are common to all the five
continents of the globe. The subject of vampirism is regarded more
seriously to-day than it was even a decade since, and an attempt
has been made in this volume to supply as far as possible all the
instances which could be collected from the various countries. How
far a certain amount of scientific truth may underlie even what may
be regarded as the most extravagant stories must necessarily be, for
the present, at any rate, an open question; but he would indeed be a
bold man who would permit his scepticism as to the objective
existence of vampires in the past or the possibility of vampirism in
the future to extend to a categorical denial. If this collection of stories
helps, even in a slight degree, to the elucidation of the problem, the
book will not have been written in vain.