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THE DEAD TRAVEL FAST
By: 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 germsβ¦ but mostly itβs about vampires. The undead are everywhere. Theyβre not just in movies and books, but in commercials, fetish clubs, and even in your breakfast cereal. If you look, youβll 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, andβ¦ 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 Vegasβ 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? Letβs just say it doesnβt go with eggs.
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