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Description edit
Characters/People edit
- Frank Smyth: Interview with the editor of 'Man, Myth and Magic' and 'Modern Witchcraft' (1971)'; also authored 'Ghosts and Poltergeists' (1976)
- Peter Underwood: to whom this book was dedicated, is interviewed.
- Sir Alexander Seton: 10th Baronet of Abercorn
- Count Dracula: Add a description of this character.
- Montague Summers: Clergyman
- Dennis Wheatley: the famed author of 'The Devil Rides Out', etc.
- Count Karnicki
- Wilkie Collins
- Bram Stoker
- Anthony Masters: author of 'Natural History of the Vampires'
- Sabine Baring-gould
- Petronius
- Gilles Garnier
- Jean Grenier
- Mary Shelley: the author
- Mr. Hyde
- Dr. Frankenstein: aka Victor Frankenstein
- Lord Byron
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Quasimodo: the hunchback of Notre Dame
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Jonathan Harker
- The Phantom of the Opera
- Sheridan Le Fanu
- Ambrose Bierce
- Montague Rhodes James
- Theda Bara
- Edmund Blake: actor in horror films of the early 20th Century
- Bela Lugosi: Dracula actor
- Boris Karloff: horror film icon
- Frankenstein's Monster
- Christopher Lee: count dracula actor
- Dr. Moreau
- H. G. Wells
- Jomo Kenyatta
- Francois Truffaut
- William Seabrook
- Countess Bathory
- Ivan The Terrible: Tsar of Russia, compared with Vlad V aka 'Vlad the Impaler'
- Rasputin: aka Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin
- Shawney Bean: the Scottish Cannibal
- Jack the Ripper
- Sir Melville Macnaghten: held opinions on the Jack the Ripper case
- John George Haigh: the acid bath murderer and 'vampire killer'
Quotes edit
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“If it scares you to read that one imaginary person killed another, why not take up knitting?”
Ambrose Bierce
Setting & Locations edit
- Transylvania
- Moravia
- County Sligo: in the West of Ireland
- Stoke-on-trent
- Bordeaux
- Chamonix
- NOTRE-DAME CATHEDRAL
- Trinity College Dublin
- Island of Doctor Moreau
- Haiti
- High Gate Cemetary
Organizations edit
- Huguenots: Add a description of this organization.
- Protestants
- Catholics
- Berserkirs: Unpredictable Viking fighters
- Society of the Leopard
- Houngan priests
- The Dracula Society
Table of Contents edit
A Word of Warning
Of Ghosts and Ghouls
Vampires
Werewolves
Horror Stories
Horror on Stage and Screen
Almost Human
A Geographiical Guide to Horror
Real Horrors
Postscript
Index
Acknowledgements
Glossary edit
Themes & Symbolism edit
Authors & Contributors edit
- Daniel Farson (Author)
Subjects edit
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