Real Vampires, Night Stalkers and Creatures from the Darkside. Brad Steiger

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      ABOUT THE AUTHOR

      

Listed as the Number One Paranormal Expert in the World on Gary Morgan’s Haunted America Tours website (www.hauntedamerica tours.com), Brad Steiger has devoted five decades of his life to exploring and examining unusual, hidden, secret, and otherwise strange occurrences. A former high school teacher and college instructor, Brad published his first articles on the unexplained in 1956. Since then he has written more than two thousand articles with paranormal themes. He is author or coauthor of more than 170 books, including Real Ghosts, Restless Spirits, and Haunted Places; The Werewolf Book; Conspiracies and Secret Societies, and, with his wife, Sherry, Real Miracles, Divine Intervention, and Feats of Incredible Survival. Brad’s Otherworldly Affaires was voted the Number One Paranormal Book of 2008 by Haunted America Tours.

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      Proofreader: Sarah Hermsen and Amy Marcaccio Keyzer

      Indexer: Lawrence W. Baker

      ISBN 978-1-57859-255-5

       Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Steiger, Brad.

       Real vampires, night stalkers, and creatures of the night / by Brad Steiger.

       p. cm.

       Includes index.

       ISBN 978-1-57859-255-5

       1. Vampires. I. Title.

       BF1556.S73 2010

       133.4’23–dc22

      2009023106

      Printed in the United States of America

      10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

      CONTENTS

       Contributing Artists

       Other Contributors

       Acknowledgments

       Introduction

       The Sons and Daughters of Lilith

       Mythic Vampires

       A Gallery of Classic Vampires

       Vampires and Werewolves

       The

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