Title: Vast disappointment
Product review: This book does not remotely live up to the effusive praise of other reviewers here (and I've read and liked Summers on The Gothic). Save your money and get it from a library. Why the warning? Summers gets far too carried away with his own research, and goes off on seemingly endless digressions that have only tangential reference to the main topic. In his discussion of vampire literature, do we really need to know the original casts of vampire plays performed in New York or London? And do we need page after page after page on excommunication? I found myself deeply annoyed as vampires faded from sight time and again and Summers expanded with scholarly garrulity on whatever bee was currently in his bonnet as he wrote. If you removed the digressions, this would be a long pamphlet, and a dull one at that.
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