The latest volume of Journal of Vampire Studies was published yesterday, as announced on Facebook, Instagram and Threads. The volume’s “headline” story is Thomas M. Bohn’s “A Historical-Critical Reading of the 1725 Frombald Letter on Vampirism in Kisiljevo.” Bohn is the author of Der Vampir: Ein europäischer Mythos (2016; The Vampire: Origins of a European Myth, 2019). His article marks the three hundredth anniversary of the famous Petar Blagojevic case.
Original uses of vampire are a common theme in the volume. The other two articles, both written by Anthony Hogg, cover “Seventeenth Century Uses of Vampire in English” and “The Oxford English Dictionary‘s Earliest Evidence for Vampire.” A note, also by Hogg, covers “The First Mention of Vampires in Poetry and Fiction.”
For the first time in the journal’s history, a cash prize is being offered to researchers. Details, terms and conditions in the latest volume.
Journal of Vampire Studies, volume five, is being rolled out across various online retailers including Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.com, Amazon.com.au, Barnes & Noble, Booktopia, with more to follow.
