title: Vampires, Burial, and Death: Folklore and Reality
author:  Paul Barber 
description: Barber has written a stimulating, authoritative discourse on the relationship between the historical concepts of vampires in folklore and fiction across the ages and throughout the world. To explain the underlying myraid interment and mourning practices designed to keep the dead at bay, he postulates a universal fear of the"vampire/revenant." Such fear was most probably based on universal lack of knowledge and control over fatal illness and disease, and misinterpretations of the natural (and varied) physical manifestations of death and decay in the human body. A lengthy bibliography accompanies the text. Best for academics, but for interested general readers too. Suzanne W. Wood, SUNY Coll. of Technology, Alfred, N.Y.<br />Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  **HEAVEN SENT**
  
  
  
  
  
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  **Heaven Sent**
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  The Midwest is full of huge gaps where things once thrived, until the
  Interstate landed…somewhere else. Wild Bill and I were in Iowa, two hours from
  anything on a map with a name beside it, when we found this house. Someone had
  squatted in it, once. But Wild Bill said that was a long, long time ago.
  
  
  
  
  
  His vampire senses tell him things like that. I keep my eyes and ears open,
  and I don’t ask too many questions. ’Cos nothing shuts him down faster than
  asking him what being a vampire’s like. Except maybe the sunrise.
  
  
  
  
  
  We squeezed ourselves into a little kid’s bed, because only that bedroom
  miraculously survived the warp and the rot that’s taken the rest of the house.
  Despite the fa