{"product_id":"9781619400818","title":"The House of the Vampire: Magical Creatures, A Weiser Books Collection","description":"\u003cp\u003eVarla Ventura, fan favorite on Huffington Post’s Weird News, frequent guest on Coast to Coast, and bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Book of the Bizarre\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBeyond Bizarre\u003c\/i\u003e, introduces a new Weiser Books Collection of forgotten crypto-classics. \u003ci\u003eMagical Creatures\u003c\/i\u003e is a hair-raising herd of affordable digital editions, curated with Varla’s affectionate and unerring eye for the fantastic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe House of the Vampire\u003c\/i\u003e was the first vampire novel to address the terrors of psychic vampires (non-bloodsuckers). The author, George Sylvester Viereck, was friends with Nikola Tesla (whose studies in the world of energy may have inspired the idea of psychic vampirism) and published a regular periodical, The Fatherland, to which Aliester Crowley was one of the many contributors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Red Wheel\/Weiser","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47163609219312,"sku":"9781619400818","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781619400818_p0.jpg?v=1763856700","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781619400818","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}