Vampire folklore resources

[Note: Links last checked/updated/archived on: 27 April, 2005. Sites with an (x) after them cannot be reached. -- Sanguinarius]

1. Bibliographies and book reviews

• The Vampyric Book List: Non-fiction by Title, at the Vampyres Only site
• Question 3.1 of the alt.vampyres FAQ
• The Vampire's Bookshelf - references for vampire research, by Beverly Richardson

2. Online articles

Note: The following list includes a lot of redundant copycat sites. One of these days, I may try to figure out who copied from whom and whittle the list down a bit, but that's not my top priority right now. In the mean time, if you discover any more sites with ORIGINAL material, please let me know!

• Staking Claims: The Vampires of Folklore and Fiction by Paul Barber, a March/April 1996 article in The Skeptical Enquirer
• The Chupacabra Home Page - about a contemporary Puerto Rican vampire hunt.
• Vampire Hunters page -- includes historical alleged cases of undead vampirism
• The Walking Dead: Draugr and Aptrgangr in Old Norse Literature by Mark S. Harris and others, on Greg Lindahl's homepage
• Interview with a Vampyre: Frequently Asked Questions, a collection of articles on vampire folklore and the more technical aspects of vampire fiction, at Vampyres Only. This same collection can also be found at the Strigoi site.
• Walpurgis Nacht: Online Text, another collection on Vampyres Only, including some articles on folklore.
• Vampire Facts, a collection of articles at Pathway to Darkness
• Necropolis (x) (click on "Vampire Facts")
• Historical Vampire and Vampiric Folklore at The Horde.
• The Vampire A to Z at Egnarts Vortex
• TV Guide interview withRaymond T. McNally (x)
• Vampire Names & Their Origins, at Eretik's Vampire Research Center (x)
• A collection of articles atFanglady's Vampyre Castle. (Most, but not all, of these articles can also be found elsewhere.)
• Vampires by Anders Martin Labich Nielsen, at The Vampire Pages of Labich
• Lility, a large collection of scholarly articles at the home page of Alan Humm
• The Lilith Shrine, on Renee Rosen's The Goddess in Training homepage
• Phantom Masquerade
• The Vampire Museum (x)
• Part 2 of the Alt.Vampyres FAQ
• Vampires of the World (x) and Bits About Vampires (x) at International Vampire (x) in Amsterdam [See Sangi's note at end of this section.]
• Vampires in Myth and History by Beverley Richardson, at The Vampire's Vault
• Several articles at VamPress
• Vampire Lore on The Ooga Booga Page of Peter Paolucci
• several articles on The Vampire Pages (x) at Dark Visions (x)
• La Maison des Vampires (x) by Melinda Jane Harrison at The Cauldron (x)
• The Vampire Pages

(Yes, the above list is rather disorganized. I'll organize it sometime later.)

[Sangi's note: Vampires of the World and International Vampire both are defunct and they aren't archived anywhere, but the info was later included in Shroudeater. -- Although this site is also now defunct, it's archive is available here.]

3. Message boards

• Dunya's Vampire Seeker (x) message board, dealing with both real-life vampirism and vampire folklore.

To recommend other relevant links, or to report out-of-date links, please write to Amy Krieytaz, c/o Sanguinarius: AKrieytaz@sanguinarius.org. Thank you.

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