THE ORIGINS OF DRACULA
The Background to Bram Stoker's Gothic Masterpiece

Edited by Clive Leatherdale (1995, second impression 1998) Hardback. 222x141mm
2nd Edition. First published in 1987 by William Kimber
240 pages. Bibliography
ISBN 1-874287-07-4
£14.99

Seventeen articles:
1. The Meaning of Mourning;
2. Fetishistic Superstitions and Burial Customs;
3. Vampyrism;
4. Are Vampires Really Dead?;
5. An Account of Wallachia, Moldavia ... and Dracula;
6. On the Track of Transylvania;
7. Transylvanian Superstitions;
8. The World's Beautiful Woman;
9. Elizabeth Bathory and Werewolf Folklore;
10. The Habits and Instincts of Bats;
11. Credulities of the Sea and of Seaman;
12. The Influence of the Mind upon the Body;
13. Mesmerine;
14. Trance-Sleep, Somnambulism, and Trance-Waking;
15. Spiritual Powers of the Church ... and Exorcism;
16. The Devil;
17. The Inquisitorial Process.

First published anthology of Stoker's sources for Dracula.