Est�s ante un libro con una cuidada est�tica —tapa dura, cap�tulos ornamentados, letras capitulares en tipograf�a g�tica y cuerpo en Sabon— que no te dejar� indiferente, te gusten los vampiros o no. No es una novela juvenil, aunque si est�s en esa edad tambi�n te encantar�: ofrece una lectura m�s profunda, entretenida y humana sobre los vampiros y otros seres sobrenaturales. Al adentrarte en sus p�ginas, descubrir�s tambi�n interesantes nociones de historia, literatura, filosof�a y religi�n.

Esta obra, escrita por Jacques Collin de Plancy en 1820, es un estudio sobre el vampirismo entendido en un sentido amplio, y que tambi�n trata de l�mures, lamias, estriges, Lilit, fantasmas, demonios, algolas, hombres lobo, brujos, brucolacos y redivivos o muertos vivientes, entre otros seres sobrenaturales. Recorre sus or�genes desde los festines antropof�gicos de la humanidad primitiva hasta el siglo XIX. A trav�s de una vasta recopilaci�n de leyendas, cuentos, relatos e historias reales de distintas culturas —Egipto, Roma, Grecia, el imperio carolingio, Bizancio, Arabia, el mundo eslavo…— el autor busca desmontar la creencia en el vampirismo.

Parad�jicamente, pese a su intenci�n racionalista y erudita —cita a Homero, Ovidio, Pierre de Lancre, Voltaire, Las mil y una noches, Cervantes o Dom Calmet, entre muchos otros—, Historia de los vampiros y de los espectros mal�ficos fue la chispa que aviv� la llama de la literatura y de la cinematograf�a vamp�rica moderna. Tras su publicaci�n, surgieron obras como Varney el vampiro, La familia del vurdalak, Carmilla, Dr�cula o Nosferatu, todas ellas en deuda con los relatos recogidos aqu�.

Por primera vez publicada en espa�ol, esta edici�n incluye abundantes notas del traductor que enriquecen y contextualizan el texto original.

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