Description: An exhaustive and comprehensive guide to vampire-themed television programs, series, telefilms and specials from 1949 through 2016, with over 1000 entries including synopses, capsule reviews, cast and credits, and trivia notes. Illustrated with over 120 photos. Preface by J. Gordon Melton (The Vampire Book).
Brief description: In 1994, Brad Middleton created "Vampyres Only," the first vampire pop culture website on the Internet (http: //vampyres.ca). It remains the largest, longest-running and most extensive online source for all things vampiric. The website has been profiled across all media, and Brad's expertise on the subject has led to consultations with such authors as Katherine Ramsland, who tapped him as a source for her ground-breaking book Piercing the Darkness: Undercover with Vampires in America Today (HarperCollins, 1998). In 2009, Brad wrote about television vampires for the third edition of The Vampire Book: The Encyclopedia of the Undead (Visible Ink Press, 2011). Realizing that the subject demanded further study, he continued researching for another three years, which culminated in the publication of Un-Dead TV in 2012-which has been updated and revised for this second edition.
Review Quotes: "Perusing this book is nothing but pure entertainment, yet both fans and scholars of the sub-genre will come away enlightened...Kudos to Middleton for this huge bite into previously uncharted bloodsucker territory." NANCY KILPATRICK Dark Fantasy/Horror author and editor (as reviewed in BEWARE THE DARK #2) "I wholeheartedly recommend this book if you enjoy reading about vampires on television, or if you are an author writing about those subjects. Un-Dead TV is an invaluable resource, and one that will find prized real estate on my office shelf." JOHN KENNETH MUIR Award-winning author, journalist and critic "Un-Dead TV fills a previously empty research niche, and provides lots of browsing entertainment. Vampire lovers and scholars should find much to like in these pages." Robert Morrish TWILIGHT RIDGE "Un-Dead TV is an amazing work, a vampirologist's dream resource book. From page one to the very end, even the most educated vampire researcher and knowledgeable fan alike will learn details on vampires in television's history. Author Brad Middleton truly lives up to the book's subtitle 'The Ultimate Guide to Vampire Television' as he covers everything from Dark Shadows to cartoons and obscure vampires you may never have heard of. Without a doubt it belongs in the library of anyone who is fascinated by vampires!" E.R. Vernor "Corvis Nocturnum" author of Allure of the Vampire: Our Sexual Attraction to the Undead (Dark Moon Press 2009) and Vampire Evolution: From Myth to Modern Day (Schiffer Publishing 2014)