The Vampire: His Kith and Kin (Annotated)

The Vampire: His Kith and Kin is Montague Summers's learned, eccentric survey of vampiric belief across folklore, theology, demonology, travel writing, and literary tradition. First published in 1928, it treats the vampire not merely as a Gothic ornament but as a persistent cultural and spiritual problem, moving from Slavic revenants and classical analogues to medieval superstition and modern occu...