Manuela Dunn Mascetti

Manuela Dunn Mascetti is well versed in subjects that have mythological origins: In addition to Vampire: The Complete Guide to the World of the Undead, from which the following eyewitness account is excerpted, Mascetti has also written The Song of Eve, an illustrated exploration of the myth of the goddess. In the piece included here, Mascetti provides authentic documentation of the famous Slavic vampire Peter Plogojowitz. The official military report of Plogojowitz's vampiric activities details how, ten weeks after his death, he returned to claim the lives of nine other people in his village of Kisilova. Plogojowitz's return from the dead incited a panic among the townspeople, who believed that Plogojowitz's intent was to destroy the entire village. The report goes on to discuss how the initially skeptical military and...