I am currently working on a designated section of the website specifically for our Journal of Vampire Studies. At present, the closest thing it has to a designated page is our “Publications” page which lists the volumes and their publication history. One thing that remains unclear is how to get them.
“The Journal of Vampire Studies is at the moment the essential publication on the subject,” wrote a reviewer of our latest volume. “The only problem is that it is hard to obtain – since it is coming from Australia – and I can only buy it from Amazon.”1 But that isn’t true. You can get it from various online retailers all over the world.
In fact, one challenge I’ve had determining which link to share to purchase the journal. I don’t want to be biased. I flirted with the idea of a comprehensive list of every possible outlet I could find, but that’s not great from a practical or aesthetic perspective. So, the solution is something approximating a universal aggregator site. That’s where BookFinder comes into it.
The journal volumes listed in the publications page are now clickable. Those links will take you to a BookFinder listing. There, you’ll see a range of outlets that specific volume is sold through. Hopefully, that works for as many people as possible. Let me know if it doesn’t.
Of minor note, the text formatting of those volumes has changed from “Vol. 1, No. 1 (2020),” etc. to “Volume 1, Number 1 | 2020” etc., a format used by the University of Chicago University Press journals. See, for example, the archive page for Renaissance Quarterly.2
I have also added a “All volumes published in paperback unless otherwise noted” to the page intro to clarify the journal’s format.
This is not intended a permanent fix, but a step toward a pretty major overhaul. Enjoy!
- Danny De Laet, “The Importance of Vampire-History,” review of Journal of Vampire Studies, volume 5, Amazon.de, March 3, 2026, https://www.amazon.de/-/en/gp/customer-reviews/R1J58PUAQO582B/. ↩︎
- Our journal uses the The Chicago Manual of Style for referencing, so its publications are a common reference point for formatting. ↩︎
