Vintage The History Of Ghosts Vampires & Werewolves Douglas Hill Brown HC 1973

Author: Douglas Hill

Book Title: The History of Ghosts, Vampires & Werewolves

Format: Vintage hardcover occult history and folklore book with brown pictorial dust jacket and blue boards

Publisher: Castle Books; copyright by Ottenheimer Publishers Inc.

Publication year: Copyright 1970 by Douglas Hill; this edition copyright 1973; originally published in England by Macdonald Unit 75 under the title Return from the Dead and reprinted by arrangement

Language: English; genre: history, horror, folklore and mythology, paranormal studies; narrative type: nonfiction; book series: Odyssey of the Occult Books

Topic: Origins and development of beliefs in ghosts, vampires, werewolves, poltergeists, exorcism, spirit communication, and other occult and supernatural phenomena across cultures and eras

Intended audience: Adult readers and occult enthusiasts interested in supernatural history, folklore, and paranormal investigation

Details: Hill surveys legends, historical reports, and case studies involving hauntings, the restless dead, blood-drinking revenants, and shape-shifters, drawing on myth, religious tradition, and modern psychic research; includes discussions of poltergeist activity, exorcism, spiritualism, and other attempts to understand or control the unseen world, accompanied by black-and-white photographs and illustrations such as Egyptian funerary scenes and documented ghost writings.

Cover artwork: Dramatic color image of a ghostly, wide-eyed figure looming behind a golden cross held in a raised hand against a dark background, with Odyssey of the Occult Books branding on the front and a list of additional series titles—including Sex and the Supernatural, Foreseeing the Future, The Interpretation of Dreams and Nightmares, Modern Witchcraft, and Astrology—on the pale blue back panel.

Country of origin: Printed in the United States of America.

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