From the editor: Encyclopedia of the Undead traces shadowy entities - vampires, werewolves, ghouls and monsters - that lurk just outside the range of human vision and inhabit our most frightening tales. Drawing on a wide range of beliefs and literature, it traces these horrors from their earliest recorded inceptions and charts their impact upon the human psyche. In this book, history and terror mix to create the things that lurk in the darkest corners of our minds.

You'll find detailed descriptions of terrors from all over the world - from the mist-shrouded mountains of Eastern Europe to the sweltering jungles of the Caribbean islands, from the dark, stone-lined tombs of the un-coffined dead beneath the remote New England hills to the dark magi's that lurk beneath the thriving, colorful surface of a haunted city. In addition to the more conventional creatures, Encyclopedia of the Undead also details some of the more obscure Things that gnaw at the edges of men's minds - Incubi and Succubi, the Mara, and the dark legends that have influenced writers from Sheridan Le Fanu to H.P. Lovecraft.

Pages: 312, Large Format, Illustrated
Special Interest: Occult, Undead, Vampires, Phantoms, Ghosts, Secret Orders & Societies, Magick, Ritual, Sorcery.