{"product_id":"blood-and-bone-paperback","title":"Blood and Bone - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLuigi Pascal Rondanini\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor two centuries the vampire has been the most anatomically detailed monster in fiction - and almost no one has taken its body seriously. This book does.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBlood and Bone\u003c\/em\u003e is a speculative physiology of the undead: a straight-faced dissection of the great vampires of literature and film, from Polidori's moonlit Lord Ruthven and Le Fanu's Carmilla to Stoker's reflectionless Count, the plague-rat frame of Nosferatu's Orlok, Anne Rice's marble-skinned Lestat, and the crystalline Edward Cullen. Treating each creature as a specimen on the table, it asks how such a body could actually work - how it feeds, how it heals, why sunlight annihilates one vampire and merely inconveniences another - and reconstructs, organ by organ, the impossible biology that fiction never troubled to explain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcross chapters on circulation without a heartbeat, venom and viral transformation, corpse-skin and crystalline flesh, it assembles a comparative natural history of creatures that were never alive: a full taxonomy of the undead, complete with charts, tables, and a programme of original anatomical plates in the tradition of Vesalius and Gray.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAffectionate, rigorous, and gleefully macabre, \u003cem\u003eBlood and Bone\u003c\/em\u003e is popular science for monsters - a field guide to the anatomy of the imagination, for readers of gothic fiction, horror cinema, pop-culture criticism, and speculative biology alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 228\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.59 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 24, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67927593091326,"sku":"9781918177343","price":48.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0826\/8716\/4670\/files\/d4Gs9cYLRW9781918177343.webp?v=1793462510","url":"https:\/\/123learningstore.com\/products\/blood-and-bone-paperback","provider":"123 Learning Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}