the dead travel fast is about vampires death chickens fear things that smell bad the love of a good woman and germs but mostly its about vampiresthe undead are everywhere theyre not just in movies and books but in commercials fetish clubs and even in your breakfast cereal if you look youll discover that bloodsuckers have gone from guest spots in rural folk tales to becoming some of the most recognizable bad guys in the modern world eric nuzum wanted to find out why and how this happened and he found the answer in goth clubs darkened parks haunted houses and chain restaurants nuzum was willing to do whatever it took to better understand the vampire phenomenon he traveled across transylvania on a tour hosted by butch patrick aka eddie munster sat through las vegas only topless vampire revue hung out with assorted shady characters and spent hours in a coffin he even drank his own blood just one more step in his quest to understand the weird offbeat world of vampires and the people who love them the dead travel fast is the hilarious result of this bloody gory and often foolhardy journey with his unmatched firsthand experience eric nuzum delivers a farreaching look at vampires in pop culture from bram to bela to buffy and at what vampires and vampirism have come to mean to us today and the blood lets just say it doesnt go with eggs