Name: Killing the Dead
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Killing the Dead

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A riveting history of vampire panics across cultures and down through the millennia and why killing the dead is better than killing the living.

Killing the Dead provides the first in-depth, global account of one of the world’s most widespread yet misunderstood forms of mass hysteria the vampire epidemic. In a spellbinding narrative, John Blair takes readers from ancient Mesopotamia to present-day Haiti to explore a macabre frontier of life and death where corpses are believed to wander or do harm from the grave, and where the vampire is a physical expression of society’s inexplicable terrors and anxieties.

In 1732, the British public opened their morning papers to read of lurid happenings in eastern Europe. Serbian villagers had dug up several corpses and had found them to be undecayed and bloated with blood. Recognising the marks of vampirism, they mutilated and burned them. Centuries earlier, the English themselves engaged in the same

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