Product Description

The Vampire Watcher's Notebook is the must-have guide to hunting down vampires. It will provide the increasing number of vampire fans with a practical how-to guide to investigating, hunting and even slaying vampires. Author and vampire expert Craig Glenday explores the 'reality' of vampires through myths, legends and facts from across the world. He includes a rogue's gallery of famous examples, extending from Vlad the Impaler to Countess Elisabeth Bathory (who showered in the blood of virgins!), and many modern examples. Complete with the annotations and bloodstains of the previous owner, this unique guide contains important information such as: - Where to look for vampires - The telltale signs of vampire activity - How to collect evidence - How to protect yourself - What to carry in your vampire slayer's pack - And much more!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #288691 in Books
• Published on: 2003-10-09
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 160 pages

About the Author
Craig Glenday was the consulting editor of the internationally acclaimed partwork series The X Factor, and editor of Top Secret: UFO Casebook, a forum for the world's leading UFO researchers and authors. - He is a member of the British UFO Research Association, the Mutual UFO Network and the Society for Psychic Research, and has acted as an advisor and consultant on numerous television and radio programmes, including Out of this World, Strange But True? and Fortean TV. - He holds a degree in Publishing from Napier University, Edinburgh, and is also a freelance musician.

Customer Reviews

DESERVES TO BE A CULT CLASSIC
Discovering this book is like unearthing a half hidden gem from the dusty shelves of a second hand bookshop. The fact that it details every annecdote, legend and factbased news item associated with vampires is almost secondary to the way the book looks and feels. Supposedly written way back in the mists of time by Constantine Gregory, it is cleverly annotated in the margins by Craig Glenday. Both help us to uncover the reasons behind our horror of vampires while reasurring us with reminders of the correct way to protect ourselves from harm. Example: good to know that vampire bats reallly exist but not outside South America. Bad to know that a bat reasercher died in Scotland in 2003 from rabies!

Fascinating as it may be to learn the correct proceedure for staking a vampire and concealing the correct amount of garlic about one's person, it is, as I repeat, the look and feel of this book that most appeals. The pages are yellowed by time, blood has stained a few paragraphs of text but it is the cover that is perhaps its cleverest trick. The fake battered edges give it that second hand feel and the centre piece is a gothic mirror. "FOREWARNED IS FOREARMED" says the introduction and as I settled down with my scotch by a roaring fire to read the final pages of this book I knew that on closing it I would have to return to that front cover just to check that my reflection still looked back at me.

Excellent, entertaining and enlightening
It's a shame this book wasnt published earlier as I believe it could really have benefited from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer fad, as it is it risks being over looked altogether.

Anyone who is a fan of the dragonology series or books of that kind would be pleased with this book, its not simply a rely of facts, theories and stories presented as a single guide to vampire researchers and slayers but a wonderfully creative piece of work, a "mirror" on the front, pages have an aged appearence, scribblings in the margin, stains and evidence of wear. You could be reading Van Helsing's own log book!!

However besides being such a great piece of work it is also pretty comprehensive, the author has done their research and pulled together a lot of detail from the world over to produce their book.

Chapters include What are Vampires? Identifying the Unded, Finding Vampires, Preventing Vampires, Slaying Vampires, Vampire Strongholds and are accompanied by a very comprehensive further reading list and a great introduction "Are Vampires Real?". All chapters are comprehensive and indepth without proving boring or difficult reading.