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Cross Word Books
Michele McAloon
Vampire Epidemics Explained
41 minutes Posted Oct 29, 2025 at 8:00 pm.
Welcome And Halloween Setup
Meeting Professor Blair And The Book
Discovering Medieval And Romanian Parallels
Fusion Of Balkan And Central European Beliefs
Defining The Dangerous Dead
Zombies, Ghosts, And Walking Corpses
Death As Process And Greek Practices
Why Corpses Return And Gendered Fears
Bloodsucking Myths And The 1720s Balkans
Archaeosanatology And Reading Graves
Resurrection Motifs And Late Antiquity
Nightmares, Sleep Paralysis, And Hmong Cases
How Common Corpse Killing Really Was
Closing Praise And Farewell
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Send us Fan Mail You can contact Michele at https://www.bookclues.com Have you ever read Dracula??? child's play compared to John Blair's Killing the Dead; Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World. A corpse that won’t stay put tells you as much about the living as it does about the dead. We sit down with Oxford’s Professor John Blair to chart how vampire epidemics rise when communities are shaken by disease, war, or rapid change—and why the freshly buried be...