Vampire

&quote;The Vampire - His Kith and Kin&quote; is a 1928 work by English clergyman and author Montague Summers. Within it, Summers discusses the vampire phenomena from a Catholic point of view, offering an a veritably academic study of the subject. Contents include: &quote;The Origins of the Vampire&quote;, &quote;The Generation of the Vampire&quote;, &quote;The Traits and Practice of Vampirism&quote;, &quote;The Vampire in Assyria, the East, and Some Ancient Countries&quote;, and &quote;The Vampire in Literature&quote;. Augustus Montague Summers (1880 - 1948) was an English clergyman and author most famous for his studies on vampires, witches and werewolves-all of which he believed to be very much real. He also wrote the first English translation of the infamous 15th-century witch hunter's manual, the &quote;Malleus Maleficarum&quote;, in 1928. Other notable works by this author include: &quote;A Popular History of Witchcraft&quote; (1937), &quote;Witchcraft and Black Magic&quote; (1946), and &quote;The Physical Phenomena of Mysticism&quote; (1947).