title: How to Kill a Vampire: Fangs in Folklore, Film and Fiction
author:  Liisa Ladouceur 
description: <DIV></DIV>&#8220;Contagiously enthusiastic about her chosen subject&#8212;but also grounded about what is a fairy tale and a narrative trope&#8212;Ladouceur delivers in this brief, dense book.&#8221; &#8212;<I>Publishers Weekly</I><br /><br /><DIV></DIV>"A crucial resource for any student of myth and legend, for writers and film-makers, and every fan of the world's favorite undead monster." &#8212;David Wellington, author of <I>13 Bullets</I><br /><br />"How to Kill a Vampire</I> will haunt the dreams of everyone from cultural historians, to Twilight lovers to seasoned veterans of the horror genre. Get your stake, your garlic and maybe your hair clippers if you are going after a Malaysian Vampire. You&#8217;re in for a long and perilous night." &#8212;W. Scott Poole, author of <I>Monsters in America</I><br /><br />"A fun and charming volume for vampire aficionados of all ages." &#8212;Nancy Kilpatrick, author of <I>The Power of the Blood</I> vampire novels and editor of <I>Evolve: Vampire Stories of the New Undead</I> and <I>Evolve Two: Vampire Stories of the Future Undead</I>&#160;<div></DIV><br /><br /><DIV></DIV>"Written with flair and energy, <I>How to Kill a Vampire</I> provides an exceptionally well researched exploration of the pursuit and destruction of vampires in folklore, fiction and film.&#160; A great read!" &#8212;Elizabeth Miller, Dracula expert and author of <I>Reflections on Dracula</I></I> (1997), <I>Dracula: The Shade and the Shadow</I> (1998), <I>Dracula: Sense &amp; Nonsense</I> (2000; rev 2006), <I>A Dracula Handbook</I> (2005), and <I>Bram Stoker's Dracula: A Documentary Journey into Vampire Country and the Dracula Phenomenon</I> (2009)<br /><br /><DIV>"Ladouceur&#8217;s writing&#8230; makes <I>How to Kill a Vampire</I> a full-on fun read. Her style is witty and jolly throughout, even when running down the litany of vampire suicide methods or describing how vampire babies tend to tear through their moms from the inside." &#8212;Mike Segretto, <I>Psychobabble</I></DIV>
zlib_text: THE VAMPIRE’S VICTIM
  “Dan!” she shouted as she played her flashlight beam in a haphazard
  fashion over walls and furniture. Was that more fake blood? “The prankster
  got inside again!”
  She had to find Bony-Parts. She had enough time to reset this scene and
  return the manikin to the dining room, but only just, and only if she could
  locate the skeleton quickly.
  There! Behind the sofa. She hurried toward the spot, irritated by the
  way the bones had been so carelessly dumped.
  It was only when Liss bent down to examine the skeleton for damage
  that she realized she’d gotten it all wrong. She caught a sickening whiff of
  an odor she’d hoped she’d never have to smell again. The reek of death was
  both unmistakable . . . and terrifying.
  She jerked upright and, for the first time, her flashlight beam shone
  directly on the face of the manikin.
  Bile rose in Liss’s throat. Her knees went weak, forcing her to grip the
  back of the sofa to keep from falling. What lay there was not a manikin. It
  was a man.