On several occasions, particularly on the periphery of the Habsburg Empire during the 17th and 18th centuries, dead people were suspected of being revenants or vampires, and consequently dug up and destroyed. Some contemporary authors named this phenomenon Magia Posthuma. This blog is dedicated to understanding what happened and why.
Sunday, 14 June 2009
Conference abstracts
The abstracts for the forthcoming conference on vampirism and posthumous magic in Vienna are now online in German as well as English.
This is certainly an exciting year for vampire research.
ReplyDeleteHere's a brief list of books that have been published - or will be, soon - this year:
Draculas, Vampires, and Other Undead Forms: Essays on Gender, Race, and Culture, edited by John Edgar Browning and Caroline Joan (Kay) Picart
DK Publishing's The Vampire Book
They Bite: Endless Cravings of Supernatural Predators by Jonathan Maberry and David F. Kramer
Vampires by Joules Taylor
Bite: A Vampire Miscellany by Kevin Jackson
Bram Stoker's Dracula: A Documentary Journey into Vampire Country and the Dracula Phenomenon by Elizabeth Miller
Vampires Today: The Truth about Modern Vampirism by Joseph Laycock
Vampire God: The Allure of the Undead in Western Culture by Mary Y. Hallab
The Weiser Field Guide to Vampires: Legends, Practices, and Encounters Old and New by J M Dixson
Real Vampires, Night Stalkers and Creatures from the Darkside by Brad Steiger
The Element Encyclopedia of Vampires by Theresa Cheung
If you weren't overly keen on those ones, Niels, there's another you might be interested in.
ReplyDeleteI've written about it here (the book doesn't have a listing, as yet).