The books Doug mentions:

Barber, Paul. Vampires, Burial, and Death: Folklore and Reality, Yale University Press, 1988.

Doug’s Gothic Reading List:

Walpole, Horace. The Castle of Otranto

Reeves, Clara, The Old English Baron

Beckford, William, Vathek

Radcliffe, Ann, The Mysteries of Udolpho

Lewis, Matthew, The Monk.

Austen, Jane, Northanger Abbey

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