This book was interesting, but it wasn't coherent at all. The author jumped from one myth to another, without considering time lines or origin. It first started talking about vampires in pop culture, then went to Vlad the Impaler, to grave diggers in the 80's, then myths and religions in the 1300...
While constructing a new crypt beneath the nave, workers uncovered an ancient, four-tiered stone block. Supporting part of the choir and chancel, the block had been part of a pagan temple that once stood on the site. Originally dedicated to the god Jupiter by the Nautae Parisiaci—the mariners of ...