This books looks amazing - silver lined pages, great illustrations, and a pocket size format. Which means it is a shallow-reader friendly material. Which means it could attract younger readers. So, parents, who want your kids to start reading something more mature than Twilight, take notice of this.
Apart from the well-chosen design, this book contains just the right amount of information. Sure, you can guess that given the format it won't overflow with data but it gives you the basics. The author took the vampire myth chronologically and briefly described as different cultures all over the world dealt with it. Basically the most important vampire "incidents" are mentioned in the book.
And apart from the historic events the book is spiced up by short chapter on pretty much anything from how to recognize a vampire or how to deal with it to the vampire brides theme.
I really like the book because it gives a very short yet interesting listing of all the most important and influential vampire myths and themes in different cultures from ancient times to modern movie-oriented era.
I believe the book is great for someone who has no prior knowledge of the vampire myth in real world (fiction doesn't count, this is about the real origins) and wants to get a nice and complete view on history of this phenomenon without being bored to death.
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