Interview with a Vampire (expert!) The Undead Explained at Burford Lit Fest
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.
Join author and Vampire historian John Blair at Burford Lit Fest this Saturday - tickets £12 from burfordlitfet.co.uk
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