title: The Vampire: A Casebook
author:  Alan Dundes 
description: Dundes (The Walled-Up Wife, Univ. of Wisconsin, 1996) presents a collection of essays by renowned folklorists (Friedrich Krauss, Juliette du Boulay, Paul Barber, and others) in an attempt to explain and define the tradition of the vampire outside the context of literature and legend. He begins with essays discussing the etymology of the term vampire and its history and ethnography. More in-depth essays follow, with analyses of Romanian and other Slavic vampire folklore. One work treating forensic pathology attempts to explain how "folk" might easily see the natural process of bodily decomposition as vampirism. Another discusses the psychology of clinical vampirism, and a final essay by the editor, with an admitted Freudian bias, tries to weave together the strands of legend and reality. Recommended for academic and public libraries with strong folklore collections but also valuable as a literary companion.?Katherine K. Koenig, Ellis Sch., Pittsburgh<br />Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: **It's a Vampire Thing**
  
  Dakota Cassidy
  
  Published 2003
  
  ISBN 1-931761-80-2
  
  Published by Liquid Silver Books, imprint of Atlantic Bridge Publishing, 6280
  Crittenden Ave, Indianapolis, Indiana. Copyright ©
  
  2003, Dakota Cassidy. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be
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  Cover Art
  
  by Sahara Kelly
  
  This is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents and dialogues in this
  book are of the author's imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any
  resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is completely
  coincidental.
  
  **Chapter 1**
  
  "Well, hello sugar!" Claire Treemont crooned softly to the naked male figure
  stretched out on the table. Co