![]() In 1997, he joined with two of his colleagues in organizing Dracula ’97, the centennial celebration of the publication of Dracula held in Los Angeles. He has also been featured on a number of shows on vampires on the History Channel, A & E, and The Learning Channel. His life-long interest in vampires, reaching back to his teen years, led to his spending his leisure time with vampire novels and movies and eventually to his authoring a set of books exploring the worlds of the Undead in the 1990s, including The Vampire Gallery: A Who’s Who of the Undead and VideoHound’s Vampires on Video. Through the 1990s he developed a real interest in making factual material about Dracula and vampires available to the growing audience of vampire fans. Melton is also the president of the American chapter of the Transylvanian Society of Dracula, a network of scholars and others who have an interest in Dracula and vampire studies. He is the author of more than 40 reference and scholarly books in the field. ![]() Gordon Melton is the director of the Institute for the Study of American Religion in Santa Barbara, California, one of America’s leading religious studies centers.
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