Roxanne Hellman and
Derek Hall's
Vampire Legends and Myths published in a series of books about the supernatural in 2012 by Rosen Publishing is a very attractive book about vampires aimed at adolescent readers. It is attractive because of a variety of colour illustrations from a broad range of places and sources, a selection that reflects an unusual variety of topics, which however are somewhat marred by a lack of precision. E.g.
Kisiljevo or
Kisilova is described as
'an Austrian village' and the text is accompanied by a nice photo of what looks precisely like that: a village in Austria instead of a village in
Serbia. At the same time,
Peter Plogojowitz is clearly characterized as
'a Serbian peasant'. It is, however, still a joy to flick through the pages of this book to study a great number of photos from Romania and other places around the world.
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| Kisilova: 'an Austrian village' |
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| The Morava river, and Kosovo, 'in the vicinity of which Arnold Paole was seemingly troubled by a vampire' |
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| Voltaire and Empress Maria Theresa |
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| 'Gerard van Swieten, whose investigations put an end to vampire hysteria in Austria' (sic) |
