During the colonial period, Africans told each other terrifying rumors that Africans who worked for white colonists captured unwary residents and took their blood. In colonial Tanganyika, for example, Africans were said to be captured by these agents of colonialism and hung upside down, their throats cut so their blood drained into huge buckets. In Kampala, the police were said to abduct Africans and keep them in pits, where their blood was sucked. Luise White presents and interprets vampire stories from East and Central Africa as a way of understanding the world as the storytellers did. Using gossip and rumor as historical sources in their own right, she assesses the place of such evidence, oral and written, in historical reconstruction. White conducted more than 130 interviews for this book and did research in Kenya, Uganda, and Zambia. In addition to presenting powerful, vivid stories that Africans told to describe colonial power, the book presents an original epistemological inquiry into the nature of historical truth and memory, and into their relationship to the writing of history.

The complete Vampire University series all in one ebook. Book One - Vampire University Constantly moving as she grew up, Taylor had learned the hard way how to blend in wherever she went. But when she moves to VanCamp University for her freshman year of college, she immediately finds herself at the center of attention of nearly everyone she encounters. From the charismatic and mysterious Evans twins, to her quirky, clingy roommate Hannah, it seems that the people in Taylor's new college life have no intention of letting her be the wallflower. It's not just blending in that Taylor has to worry about, though. At VanCamp University, there is more to the staff and students than meets the eye. While trying to adjust to her new life on campus, she finds herself in a world where fairy tales and reality collide, where gargoyles and leprechauns mingle with humans and vampires, and where nothing is as it first appears. And as she discovers the truth of her own unusual heritage, Taylor learns that fairy tales are just the beginning. Book Two - The Last Leprechaun After surviving their encounters with vampires and other supernatural creatures at VanCamp University, Taylor and her friends must face the real dangers of college: homework, parties, new roommates, and first dates. Nothing for Taylor is ever quite that simple though. Just as she is trying to live a normal freshman life with an overprotective roommate, she is drawn into the mystery of a park with magical secrets. As she grows closer to her new friends, their trust in each other is tested when demons from their past come back to haunt them. Book Three - Angel Guardian With the dangers she had encountered behind her, Taylor Bain is finally ready to settle down to a normal college experience. But when Eric Evans returns to town, trouble is not far behind. And when she turns to her friend Hannah Cohen for help, Taylor discovers that Tom was not her only friend with secrets. Book Four - Guardians of Eden The Vampire University Series concludes in this final chapter as Taylor Bain again has to defend herself and the people she loves against impossible forces. The stakes have never been higher as Taylor races against time to save Hannah, and Joseph fights against all odds to save his brother Eric from the power-hungry guardian who threatens them all.

This “vigorous, witty look at the undead as cultural icons in 19th- and 20th-century England and America” examines the many meanings of the vampire myth (Kirkus Reviews). From Byron’s Lord Ruthven to Anne Rice’s Lestat to the black bisexual heroine of Jewelle Gomez’s The Gilda Stories, vampires have taken many forms, capturing and recapturing our imaginations for centuries. In Our Vampires, Ourselves, Nina Auerbach explores the rich history of this literary and cultural phenomenon to illuminate how every age embraces the vampire it needs—and gets the vampire it deserves. Working with a wide range of texts, as well as movies and television, Auerbach follows the evolution of the vampire from 19th century England to 20th century America. Using the mercurial figure as a lens for viewing the last two hundred years of Anglo-American cultural history, “this seductive work offers profound insights into many of the urgent concerns of our time” (Wendy Doniger, The Nation).

Surveys centuries of folklore about vampires and offers a scientific explanation for the origins of the legends.

Elizabeth Wakefield is falling in love with Nikolai Von Greiner, a famous "yet mysterious" journalist. Nikolai is tall, dark, dangerously handsome....and the keeper of a deadly secret. Will Elizabeth abandon her friends, her family and even her life to be with the man she longs for?

This title explores the enduring myth of Dracula and vampires and just why it has remained so popular for so long.

Analyzes how the rhetoric of Yugoslav intellectuals and politicians and the U.S.-led Western media and political leadership framed the serbs as metaphorical vampires in the last decades of the twentieth century.