Explore the origins of vampire fiction through fifteen chilling tales of bloodsucking mayhem!
From Gothic horror and traditional folklore to satire, psychological horror, and even romance, these tales introduce a diverse cast of undead characters-including literature's first Black vampire, gay and lesbian vampires, psychic vampires, some old, some young, but all share an unquenchable thirst for blood!
This anthology also features the first vampire story ever set in the Carpathian region (The Mysterious Stranger, a possible influence on Bram Stoker), as well as Stoker's own story Dracula's Guest, excised by his publisher from his classic Dracula novel before release.
CONTENTS:
A Fragment (1816) - Lord Byron
The Vampyre (1819) - John William Polidori
The Black Vampyre (1819) - Uriah Derick D'Arcy
Clarimonde (1836) - Théophile Gautier
The Mysterious Stranger (1854) - Anonymous (Karl von Wachsmann)
Carmilla (1872) - J. Sheridan LeFanu
Ken's Mystery (1883) - Julian Hawthorne
Manor (1885) - Karl Heinrich Ulrichs
Good Lady Ducayne (1896) - Mary E. Braddon
Dracula's Guest (1897) - Bram Stoker
The Tomb of Sarah (1900) - F. G. Loring
The Vampire Maid (1900) - Hume Nisbet
For The Blood is The Life (1911) - Francis Marion Crawford
The Room in The Tower (1912) - E. F. Benson
The Transfer (1912) - Algernon Blackwood