Reach out and explore your deep-rooted fears and desires with vampires - a beginners guide. By combining various aspects of the vampire phenomena and its history, this book will take you on a literary journey which tackles the questions as to whether or not analyse it could in any sense exist. Read about: - the history and roots of the vampire. - historical examples of the undead. - people who have acquired a vampire like lifestyle. - the symbology of the vampire. - familiar vampire tales retold.