Author Claude Lecouteux, takes us into the strange and occult world of vampires in
The Secret History of Vampires - Their Multiple Forms and Hidden Purposes. This is a book describes the history and facts that you might think you know about. Thought once you read this book you begin to see the underworld that surrounds us and also the beauty in the stories
Claude Lecouteux weaves.
There are many stories that you will be shocked to hear are based off of real events. Overall,
Claude Lecouteux's book explores a world you may have never thought was real; which is one with surprises around every corner and dark alley.
Inside the Secret History of Vampires - Their Multiple Forms and Hidden Purposes we discover of all forms taken by the undead, the vampire wields the most powerful pull on the modern imagination. But the countless movies and books inspired by this child of the night who has a predilection for human blood are based on
incidents recorded as fact in newspapers and judicial archives in the centuries preceding the works of Bram Stoker and other writers.
Claude Lecouteux is a former professor of medieval literature and civilization at the Sorbonne, and is the author of numerous books on medieval and pagan afterlife beliefs. Among his published books are The Return of the Dead and Witches, Werewolves, and Fairies.
As Lecouteux shows, the belief in vampires predates ancient Roman times, which abounded with lamia, stirges, and ghouls. Discarding the tacked together explanations of modern science for these inexplicable phenomena, he looks back to another folk belief that has come down through the centuries like that of the undead:
the existence of multiple souls in every individual, not all of which are able to move on to the next world after death.
