"Real" Vampirism tales on Radio 4

[Doug ex-em4]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00w1y0k

Programme description:

Antoine Augustin Calmet published an apparently serious anthropological history of the Vampire throughout Europe in the early 19 century called "The Phantom World." All the people he spoke to were adamant about what they had witnessed. His account therefore appears all the more disturbing and became the basis for the flights of Vampiric fancy that took off in the Victorian age.

Read by David Tennant

Doug

[Patrice]

Interesting. But with a quick research I find a mistake on the BBC website. It is a mid-18th century book.

"Calmet, Dom Augustine. Dissertations sur les apparitions, des anges, des démons et des esprits, et sur les revenants et vampires de Hongrie, de Boheme, de Moravie et de Silésie. Rev. ed. Paris, 1751. Reprinted as The Phantom World. 2 vols. London: Richard Bentley, 1850."

[P_Clapham]

Ooo... another book for my 'research'.   

[Patrice]

another book for my 'research'

Go on the website of the French National Library
http://gallica.bnf.fr/
and type " calmet vampires " on the research bar: you will be able to read the book.

Or go directly to
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k68179p/f2.image.pagination.r=calmet+vampires.langFR
it should work also.

Unfortunately it does not seem possible to download it.

[Momotaro]

Good find!

English translations are free to download at Manybooks and Project Gutenberg:

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29412

http://manybooks.net/titles/calmeta2941229412-8.html