Цитаты из книг — Aaron Mahnke

We fear death because it means the loss of control, the loss of purpose and freedom. Death, in the eyes of many people, robs us of our identity and replaces it with finality.

Halloween is one of my favorite times of the year, and I bet you feel the same. It`s one of the few moments when we stop and acknowledge the shadows — the mystery and the unknown. Because life without mystery is stale and flat, and days like today help to add texture to our lives.

One last thing: according to the Bulgarian folklore surrounding vamprie hunters, there was one big risk for those in the profession. Anyone who served as a sabotnik or vampirazia was most at risk of becoming a vampire themselves. Even in England, Hopkins didn`t die a hero. Instead, he was viewed as a monster and bogeyman.…

The vampire folklore of our ancestors is as varied and textured as the countless modern versions that Hollywood presents us with each year. Most, however, still focus on some aspect of Bram Stoker`s famous novel. It`s fair to say that our love for the story of Dracula is just as undying as the monster himself. One of the…

Maybe something evil and contagious has survived for centuries, spreading across borders and oceans. It`s certainly left a trail of horrific events in its wake, and it`s influenced countless tales and superstitions, all of which seem to point to a real-life cause. Far from being unique to Serbia or Romania, this thing is…

With that, the villagers did what their tradition demanded: they removed the heads from each corpse, gathered all of the remains into a pile, and then burned the whole thing. The threat to their village was finally dead and gone. But something new had been born. Something more powerful than a monster, something that lives…

I realize that being buried alive sounds like a rare occurrence, but it happened frequently enough that many people were sufficiently paranoid about it to actually spend time looking for a solution. One of those people happened to be a medical doctor, a man named Adolf Gutsmuth. In 1822, and driven by the fear of being…