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Vikram and the Vampire by Richard Burton

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Vikram and the Vampire
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Publisher: Longmans, Green
ISBN/ASIN: 1461162734
Number of pages: 392

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This is the history of a huge Bat, Vampire, or Evil Spirit which inhabited and animated dead bodies. It is an old, and thoroughly Hindu, Legend composed in Sanskrit, and is the germ which culminated in the Arabian Nights ...

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