J Gordon Melton

Broschiertes Buch

The Vampire Book

The Encyclopedia of the Undead

Beschreibung

From Vlad the Impaler and Barnabas Collins to Dracula and Lestat, this exhaustive guide furnishes more than 500 essays, a vampire chronology, and 60 pages of vampire resources. This third edition includes a wealth of current events, including the Twilight phenomenon.

Autor

J. Gordon Melton, a nationally known author, lecturer, and scholar, is the Distinguished Professor of American Religious History at Baylor University and serves as the director of the Institute for the Study of American Religion. Dr. Melton is best known for his work on religious cults, and he is considered America's senior scholar in the field of new and unconventional religions, having studied them for more than 40 years. Simultaneously, he has emerged as a leading scholar of vampire and Dracula studies and previously served a tenure as the American president of the Transylvanian Society of Dracula, an international association of vampire and Dracula scholars. He has authored multiple books in the field, two of which received the Lord Ruthven Award as the best nonfiction book in vampire studies. He currently resides in Waco, Texas, with his wife, Suzie.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Visible Ink Press
• 3rd edition
• Seitenzahl: 944
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 232mm x 181mm x 51mm
• Gewicht: 1492g
• ISBN-13: 9781578592814
• ISBN-10: 157859281X
• Artikelnr.: 29606769