Just released from Feral House:

TRUE VAMPIRES:  Blood-Sucking Killers Past and Present
By Sondra London

Some vampires are not fictional creatures. This book examines the real
vampires whose crimes have contributed to the fearsome mythos. True Vampires
takes you into the minds of real blood-sucking killers from Romania and
Russia, France and Wales, Brazil and South Africa, to the hills of Kentucky
and the streets of Los Angeles.

The history of the vampire mythos is traced from Jesus Christ urging his
followers to eat his flesh and drink his blood, to the legendary exploits of
Vlad the Impaler, Countess Bathory, and Sawney Bean. Ancient tales of the
accursed undead rising from the grave are given new life when compared with
modern accounts of persons approaching burial who suddenly sit up and ask
for a drink of water.

Sondra London, also the co-author of The Making of a Serial Killer, explains
how the seductive appeal of the commercialized vampire image acts as a
"media virus" and contributes to a widespread desensitization toward a truly
horrific level of personal violence.

The current crop portrayed here includes Rod Ferrell and his Vampire Clan,
bloodsucking teens like Virginian Kyle Hulbert and Welshman Matthew Hardman,
stoned rapper Big Lurch, boy-eating pedophile Nathaniel Bar-Jonah, vampire
rapist John Crutchley, San Francisco Samurai Joshua Rudiger, and the pair of
German occultists who hailed Satan in court, Manuela and Daniel Ruda.

Vivid and detailed histories are given for the earlier generations of
flesh-eaters and blood-suckers, including the infamous Peter Kurten, Fritz
Haarmann, John Haigh, Richard Trenton Chase, Issei Sagawa, Stanley Dean
Baker, Daniel Rakowitz, Ed Gein, Albert Fish, Arthur Shawcross, Andrei
Chikatilo, Ottis Toole and Henry Lee Lucas.

The Ultimate Vampire of contemporary variety is revealed to be Nicolas
Claux, otherwise known as "The Vampire of Paris." This notorious
blood-sucking killer is also a talented artist, and as such, Claux has
lavishly illustrated this book with a series of striking oil portraits of
vampire killers, and his Oath to Satan, inscribed and sworn in his own blood
while he was imprisoned for murder.

True Vampires: Blood-Sucking Killers Past and Present
By Sondra London
Feral House, 364 pages, ISBN: 0-922915-93-8, $16.95
www.feralhouse.com