"His life blood, who bent there, had nurs'd her,
The living was food for the dead!"

-1822, Old Colony Memorial and Plymouth Colony Advertiser

'Food For the Dead' is a mystifying vampire book that presents the whole vampirism phenomenon in a whole new light.

On the surface, the book is a fascinating account of vampire practices in 19th Century New England, where corpses were exhumed, their hearts were removed and burned, and the ashes mixed with water to make medicine.

But on a deeper level, it analyzes the entire idea of vampirism and belief in vampirism through a theory (with a lot of evidence behind it) - that shows how the idea of vampirism is strongly connected to the concept of medicine and healing, and vampire rituals and practices are essentially healing practices.

The detalis of how/why this works are super interesting, and the whole idea is quite thought-provoking - it turns out that vampirism, which is ususally associated with evil and demons actually originated as a medicinal practice to combat incurable illness.

It also makes you have new insight into the writings of Anne Rice, who, after all, was motivated to enter the vampire world as a means of dealing with incurable disease.

Enough said - go check it out at www.idealog.com/books/foodforthedead.html- there are 3 free chapters + postscript on there.

-Sigalit

i definately look at it

interesting.. I might check this information...

Im new so can you tell me how to become a vampire , do se some one have to bite you or some thing i really wanna be a vampire and im goin to transilvania next month so can you help me out please

that book looks awesome. oh, and alchemist....they don't exsist love. not classicals. sorry.

And your undisputable proof of that would be what, Lestat? ;)

Sounds like a good book- need to check it out!