... both Churches developed their own peculiar methods against "vampires-. The Roman Catholic one set up that same complex ritual described by Bram Stoker in "Dracula-; the first step is the staking of vampire's heart, then the chopping of his head off and the final ... , and we discover it was not so bad, after all. Three romances and a short story A brief introduction: I will briefly examine four works, three romances (Bram Stoker's Dracula, Stephen King's Salem's Lot and J. Steakley's Vampires) and a short story (Polidori's The Vampire: a Tale). I include a summary only of Steakley ... 's...

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