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The Vampire Combat Manual: A Guide to Fighting the Bloodthirsty Undead Paperback - 2012

by Roger Ma

With detailed illustrations and firsthand accounts from vampire combat veterans--as well as interviews with actual members of the undead--this manual is the best chance for readers to survive with their life and blood supply in tact.


Summary

WHEN DARKNESS FALLS… WHEN THE UNDEAD RISE WITH A HUNGER FOR BLOOD… WHEN THE HUNT IS ON—AND YOU ARE THE PREY… WILL YOU BE READY?

In the inevitable event of a vampire attack, the average citizen will be forced to engage in vicious hand-to-hand combat. To avoid serious injury, disfigurement, or death by exsanguination, you need to know the proper combat strategies and techniques to ward off a stronger, faster, more agile undead opponent looking to drain the life from your body. Are you prepared? With detailed illustrations and firsthand accounts from vampire combat veterans—as well as interviews with actual members of the undead—this manual provides you with the information you need to survive with your life and blood supply intact, including:

• Debunking myths, i.e.: vampire flight, animal metamorphosis, physical attraction to humans
• Crafting the most lethal vampire weapons from everyday materials
• The pros—and cons—of decapitation
• Weaponizing Ultraviolet (UV) light against an undead opponent
• Using the Domicile Histodiscordant Reaction (DHR), otherwise known as “The Vampire Invitation,” to your advantage
• Solo attacks, team-based combat, and much more…

The Vampire Combat Manual is your indispensable key to survival, whether in a one-on-one battle for blood or a face-off against multiple attackers. Don’t wait until the sun goes down—prepare yourself now!

From the publisher

WHEN DARKNESS FALLS... WHEN THE UNDEAD RISE WITH A HUNGER FOR BLOOD... WHEN THE HUNT IS ON--AND YOU ARE THE PREY... WILL YOU BE READY? In the inevitable event of a vampire attack, the average citizen will be forced to engage in vicious hand-to-hand combat. To avoid serious injury, disfigurement, or death by exsanguination, you need to know the proper combat strategies and techniques to ward off a stronger, faster, more agile undead opponent looking to drain the life from your body. Are you prepared? With detailed illustrations and firsthand accounts from vampire combat veterans--as well as interviews with actual members of the undead--this manual provides you with the information you need to survive with your life and blood supply intact, including: - Debunking myths, i.e.: vampire flight, animal metamorphosis, physical attraction to humans
- Crafting the most lethal vampire weapons from everyday materials
- The pros--and cons--of decapitation
- Weaponizing Ultraviolet (UV) light against an undead opponent
- Using the Domicile Histodiscordant Reaction (DHR), otherwise known as "The Vampire Invitation," to your advantage
- Solo attacks, team-based combat, and much more... The Vampire Combat Manual is your indispensable key to survival, whether in a one-on-one battle for blood or a face-off against multiple attackers. Don't wait until the sun goes down--prepare yourself now!

Details

  • Title The Vampire Combat Manual: A Guide to Fighting the Bloodthirsty Undead
  • Author Roger Ma
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Original
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Berkley Books
  • Date 2012-10-02
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780425247655 / 0425247651
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.1 x 5.4 x 0.8 in (20.57 x 13.72 x 2.03 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Library of Congress subjects Vampires
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012011585
  • Dewey Decimal Code 398.21

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Praise for The Zombie Combat Manual

The Zombie Combat Manual kicks undead ass! Roger Ma saves the day with this smart, funny, and thoroughly practical book on fighting the living dead.”--Jonathan Maberry, author of Patient Zero and Zombie CSU

“As a practitioner of martial arts, and a former US Army Ranger, I cannot stress enough how important empty-hand fighting is…There are many survival books out there on how to deal with the living dead and then there’s this one. Roger Ma’s book should be on the short list of handy manuals to take with you to the zombie apocalypse.”--Don Roff, author of Zombies: A Record of the Year of Infection

“If you’re a reader who likes books about zombies that never “blink” and keep up the intensity for the entire read, then The Zombie Combat Manual is the book for you.”--Scott Kenemore, author of The Zen of Zombie and Z.E.O. 


About the author

Roger Ma is the author of The Zombie Combat Manual and founder of the Institute for Undead Combat Studies. He is also a Team Chief for New York City's Community Emergency Response Teams (CERT), a civilian volunteer group that assists first responders in the likely event of a zombie--or a vampire--attack.
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