Vampires

Description

Best-selling Liverpool author, Tom Slemen, has cast his net wider than his usual Merseyside in compiling the stories for this book, and all with one chilling theme - vampires. If you thought that vampires only belonged in the pages of science fiction books, think again! Tom shows us that they can, and do, turn up in the most ordinary and extraordinary places, from suburban bedrooms and kitchens, to caves and disused coalmines; from a royal castle in Scotland, to an iceberg adrift in the frozen wastes of the North Atlantic ocean.

And if you thought that all vampires had the same modus operandum, think again! It is true that many vampire attacks do fit the classic formula of a cloaked stranger sucking the blood from a young woman victim, and you will find several examples of such attacks in Vampires, but what about those who like to feast on new born babies, or who can change shape at will? Nor do all vampires suck their victims' blood, instead siphoning off their very life force, leaving them drained of all energy.

No - this is not fiction, but meticulously-researched fact. Whether writing about the ancient Egyptian vampiress, Sekhmet, or Black Tom the highwayman turned vampire who terrorised the county of Dorset
for over three hundred years, Tom Slemen has the unerring ability to seek out tales of the paranormal and retell them with chilling lucidity. If you are genuinely interested in vampires, and are not of a nervous disposition, read on!