Vampires and Vampirism

The original 1929 edition, meticulously preserved. This edition moves beyond the sterile, mass-market reproductions often found today to bring you a premium Collector’s Facsimile. Every page maintains the historical pagination and aesthetic of the source text, paired with a bespoke cover design unique to this imprint. In Vampires and Vampirism, Dudley Wright presents an ambitious and geographically expansive compendium of vampire lore, tracing its historical, cultural, and theological dimensions across continents and centuries. With a methodical approach that combines folklore, religious doctrine, ethnographic reports, and legal accounts, Wright investigates the persistence of vampiric belief from ancient Babylonia and classical Greece through the superstitions of Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and even Britain. He examines vampirism not merely as a morbid curiosity but as a phenomenon that intersects with religious excommunication, theories of the soul, and cultural conceptions of disease and death. Without asserting a definitive scientific verdict, Wright invites the reader to reconsider the boundaries of superstition and reality, suggesting that the global endurance of vampiric narratives may conceal deeper anthropological and psychological truths. This work remains a valuable historical document for scholars of folklore, comparative religion, and the occult revival of the early twentieth century.