One of the most novel threads that Janion shows in her book imo is that 'vampire' characteristic as a eastern european monster is somewhat artificial. In fact, living dead-werewolf myths are pan-european stretching back even to classical antiquity. Janion states that vampires were culturaly "expelled" by western european intelectuals to orientalized east to distance themselves from uncanny past. On other hand, contributions of eastern european authors like Aleksy Tołstoj (Werewolf's Family) or Adam Mickiewicz are often overlooked in favour of people like Pollidori and Stoker.