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The Dead Travel Fast
Eric Nuzum
Stalking Vampires from Nosferatu to Count Chocula
Thomas Dunne Books
September 2007
On Sale: September 18, 2007
256 pages
ISBN: 031237111X
EAN: 9780312371111
Hardcover
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The Dead Travel Fast is about vampires, death, chickens,
fear, things that smell bad, the love of a good woman, and
germs… but mostly it’s about vampires. The undead are everywhere. They’re not just in movies and
books, but in commercials, fetish clubs, and even in your
breakfast cereal. If you look, you’ll discover that
bloodsuckers have gone from guest spots in rural folk tales
to becoming some of the most recognizable bad guys in the
modern world. Eric Nuzum wanted to find out why and how this
happened. And he found the answer in Goth clubs, darkened
parks, haunted houses, and… chain restaurants.
Nuzum was willing to do whatever it took to better
understand the vampire phenomenon. He traveled across
Transylvania on a tour hosted by Butch Patrick (a.k.a. Eddie
Munster), sat through Las Vegas’ only topless vampire revue,
hung out with assorted shady characters, and spent hours in
a coffin. He even drank his own blood --just one more step
in his quest to understand the weird, offbeat world of
vampires and the people who love them.
The Dead Travel Fast is the hilarious result of this bloody,
gory, and often foolhardy journey. With his unmatched
firsthand experience, Eric Nuzum delivers a far-reaching
look at vampires in pop culture, from Bram to Bela to Buffy,
and at what vampires and vampirism have come to mean to us
today.
And the blood? Let’s just say it doesn’t go with eggs.
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