Montague Summers

Montague Summers was an ordained deacon who wrote prolifically on topics related to the occult, witchcraft, and supernatural phenomena. In his book The Vampire in Europe, from which the following article is excerpted, Summers presents an exhaustive amount of research into the eyewitness accounts of vampires, from early history through the late 1920s, when his book was first published. He collected oral and written narratives of vampire sightings and interactions not only from eyewitnesses themselves, but from relatives and acquaintances of those eyewitnesses. In his effort to present a thorough cataloging of vampire sightings in Europe over several centuries, Summers also refers to reputable published collections of eyewitness narratives. Summers was convinced that vampires exist in our world. Although the reader must ultimately decide this for himself, Summers' beliefs and the evidence he presents...