Arm yourself with garlic, stake and crucifix, for the vampires are back
in force - at the top of the best seller lists, on your TV, on the web
and lurking in darkened cinemas. But where did they come from? Why have
they come back now? And how can you tell if you are one?
Beginning with the first sightings of bats and blood-sucking in the
Romantic period, Bite follows the undead's progress through the ages,
right up to the present. Alongside mini-essays, anecdotes, facts and
figures, each section will be punctuated with lists, such as the best
places around the world for vamp tourism; rock songs with vampire
allusions; box-office revenue for vamp movies; the top 10 vampire clubs,
video games and vampire brides, as well as reliable and unreliable
methods of killing a vampire....