2008-06-21 Excellent, entertaining and enlightening

It's a shame this book wasnt published earlier as I believe it could really have benefited from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer fad, as it is it risks being over looked altogether.

Anyone who is a fan of the dragonology series or books of that kind would be pleased with this book, its not simply a rely of facts, theories and stories presented as a single guide to vampire researchers and slayers but a wonderfully creative piece of work, a "mirror" on the front, pages have an aged appearence, scribblings in the margin, stains and evidence of wear. You could be reading Van Helsing's own log book!!

However besides being such a great piece of work it is also pretty comprehensive, the author has done their research and pulled together a lot of detail from the world over to produce their book.

Chapters include What are Vampires? Identifying the Unded, Finding Vampires, Preventing Vampires, Slaying Vampires, Vampire Strongholds and are accompanied by a very comprehensive further reading list and a great introduction "Are Vampires Real?". All chapters are comprehensive and indepth without proving boring or difficult reading.