The Vampire - His Kith and Kin — Montague Summers

The Vampire - His Kith and Kin is a 1928 work by English clergyman and author Montague Summers. Within it, Summers discusses the vampire phenomena from a Catholic point of view, offering an a veritably academic study of the subject. Contents include: The Origins of the Vampire, The Generation of the Vampire, The Traits and Practice of Vampirism, The Vampire in Assyria, the East, and Some Ancient Countries, and The Vampire in Literature. Augustus Montague Summers (1880 - 1948) was an English clergyman and author most famous for his studies on vampires, witches and werewolves--all of which he believed to be very much real. He also wrote the first English translation of the infamous 15th-century witch hunter's manual, the Malleus Maleficarum, in 1928. Other notable works by this author include: A Popular History of Witchcraft (1937), Witchcraft and Black Magic (1946), and The Physical Phenomena of Mysticism (1947).