Author Description

Biting nonfiction about the creatures readers have found irresistible ever since Bram Stoker's Dracula... Authoritative, chilling, and complete, "Sticking Your Neck Out: Valiant Thor's Book of Vampires" is a hypnotic history of vampires from their most ancient predations all over the world, up to and including 20th-century cases in America and Europe. Revealing the various forms of vampires and their character, it also spells out the traditional methods men and women have used to protect themselves against the creatures of the night, and how both clergy and laity have worked to destroy them. In this entertaining book, Valiant Thor surveys not only the famous cases such as that of Countess Bathory, the "Vampire Lady of the Carpathians," but details even more gripping tales of the undead, and interviews actual modern American vampires - people obsessed by their own lust for blood.