The book includes original documents from the first vampire investigations, which laid the foundations for European ideas about vampires, including the famous protocol “Visum et Repertum” (1732). For this edition, all translations and comments to them have been reviewed, corrected and supplemented. Along with documents from the vampiric investigations of 1725–1732, the book includes some evidence from the 14th–17th centuries. about hand-claws, proto-vampires and revenants; These texts are translated into Russian for the first time based on the original editions and provided with commentaries.