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A review by mslingercarreer
Vampires and Vampirism by Montague Summers
3.0
This book is DENSE. I could only read about 5 pages at a time before I had to put it down.
The author went to great lengths in gathering documents and materials to compile this book so I will certainly give him credit there. It was extremely repetitive. He would give an observation or a common thread to stories about vampires and then proceed to give about 20 different stories to prove his point. A good third of this book is in latin and french and not translated. I think he "translated" maybe 2 passages but he just briefly explains what it said. Which I guess is better than nothing. But again, he did it less than a handful of times.
The author went to great lengths in gathering documents and materials to compile this book so I will certainly give him credit there. It was extremely repetitive. He would give an observation or a common thread to stories about vampires and then proceed to give about 20 different stories to prove his point. A good third of this book is in latin and french and not translated. I think he "translated" maybe 2 passages but he just briefly explains what it said. Which I guess is better than nothing. But again, he did it less than a handful of times.