Daniel Farson

Daniel Farson is exceptionally qualified to write on the subject of vampires. Not only is he the author of The Man Who Wrote Dracula, the most authoritative and well—known biography on Bram Stoker, but Farson is also Stoker's greatnephew. In the following article, excerpted from another of his books on vampires and the supernatural, Farson offers rational explanations for the eyewitness accounts of vampire activity recorded in many cultures throughout history. Discussing the historical context within which these eyewitness accounts have been reported, he provides scientific, medical, and psychological evidence that work to explain that the "vampires" people believe they saw were really the result of bodies affected by natural decomposition processes, accidental premature burial, and superstitious imaginings created by the human unconscious. Farson never directly states...