A review by bladelikesbooks
Secrets of the Vampire: A Supernatural Sourcebook of Our Legend and Lore by Julie Légère, Elsa Whyte

5.0

Narrated by a vampire, this book is set out like an academic non-fiction piece that chronologically catalogs the influences, origins and evolutions of vampire lore with focuses of many iconic vampire medias such as Carmilla, Dracula and Buffy The Vampire Slayer. It is also beautifully illustrated. 

I’ve always found Vampires to be very beautiful and interesting creatures but have only read or watched them in fantasy media. I have learnt so much about vampire lore and origins while reading this and will definitely be researching many of the cultures, mythology and media mentioned throughout this book.

The illustrations in this book were so beautiful and were so well done, I will definitely be supporting the illustrator from now on and checking out their other works. 

I think this book is an excellent introduction to learning about vampiric lore and history and it is so incredibly researched and gives such in-depth information about vampire origins in just 77 pages. I hope this author has other works that I can check out and if not, I will look forward to their future releases. I will definitely be buying a physical copy of this once it is published. 

Thank you to NetGalley and Quarto Publishing Group for allowing me an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. This review is completely my honest opinions of this book. 

TWs/CWs - Animal Sacrifice; Blood; Body Horror; Buried Alive; Cannibalism; Child Death; Death; Epidemics; Fire/Fire Injury; Infidelity; Mind Control; Miscarriage (mentioned); Self Cannibalisation; Suicide; Xenophobia (discussed)
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