• The author is a respected scholar and writer on the occult - his writing has featured in The Guardian, BBC History magazine and many other popular mainstream publications. He has also published a number of works on similar themes for respected academic publishers (Cornell University Press, Routledge etc)
• The book has been researched with the rigour of an academic and written with the voice of a popular historian - it looks at specific examples to explain how belief in vampires spread and compellingly reinterprets certain incidents to explain the seemingly supernatural
• There is little or no other available work on: vampirebodies and souls; vampire nightmares; the vampire poltergeist; and livevampires. At the same time, it does not assume specialist knowledge on the partof readers.