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The Mag: Issue 288

 
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How To Kill a Vampire -
Vampire-killing kits! Jonathan Ferguson sharpens his stakes, loads up his silver bullets and prepares to investigate

Vampire-killing kits are now fetching high prices at auction - but are these mysterious cases containing crosses, pistols and holy water genuine antiques, clever fakes or playful artworks? Also in this issue Dr Leo Ruickbie dissects the vampire autopsies at the dawn of the Age of Reason, John Fraser uncovers the men who invented Dracula, Theo Paijmans goes in search of the Snake Woman of Virginia, Mark Yon interviews award-winning writer Richard Morgan, George Binning meets the doctor who hangs out with vampires and werewolves, Andrew May ponders the locked room mysteries of crime author John Dickson Carr, while Robert Bartholomew looks at a case of recent mass hysteria in a New York state school and predicts an epidemic of such 'social panics' to come.

Plus! The Labour councillor whose mother is an alien; Putin's zombie gun; Tombman the Rennes-le-Chateau hoaxer exposed; the Enfield poltergeist; the dingo detectives; 2012 Watch; flights from nowhere in UFO Casebook, a Mothman encounter and an email from the grave!

How To Kill a Vampire
Vampire-killing kits: are these mysterious cases genuine antiques, clever fakes or playful artworks? Jonathan Ferguson sharpens his stakes, loads up his silver bullets and prepares to investigate
 
Vampire Autopsies
Dr Leo Ruickbie explores how at the dawn of the Age of Reason a surge in vampirism brought age-old folklore to the attention of the doctors, philosophers and scholars who assessed the medical evidence for the undead
 
The Men Who Invented Dracula
John Fraser tells the story of how two enterprising ministry men in Ceausescu's Romania managed to put the world's most famous fictional vampire on the tourist map
 
Interview with SFF novelist Richard Morgan
Mark Yon interviews the Arthur C Clarke and Philip K Dick award- winning SF and fantasy writer Richard Morgan
 
Creatures of the Night
George Binning meets Dr Gregory L Reece, the religious historian who hangs out with vampires and werewolves
 
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