TY - BOOK AU - Laycock,Joseph TI - Vampires today: the truth about modern vampirism SN - 9780313364723 AV - BF1556 .L39 2009 U1 - 398/.45 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Westport, Conn. PB - Praeger KW - Vampires KW - United States KW - fast N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-192) and index; What is a vampire? : or the varieties of vampiric experience -- Why vampires? -- The vampire milieu -- Initiatory vampire groups : vampirism as apotheosis -- The vampire community -- Vampirism and religion, a dialogue -- Out of the shadows -- Vampires and the modern N2 - This book about real vampires and the communities they have formed explores the modern world of vampirism in all its amazing variety ER -