Vampires
Alternate Title: | The Penguin Book of Vampire Stories |
Author: | Alan Ryan |
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Penguin Books, 1988 Doubleday, 1987 |
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Genre: | Horror |
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Synopsis
They're lurking under the cover of darkness... and between the covers of this book. Here, in all their horror and all their glory, are the great vampires of literature: male and female, invisible and metamorphic, doomed and daring.
Their skin deathly pale, their nails curved like claws, their fangs sharpened for the attack, they are gathered for the kill and for the chill, brought frighteningly to life by Bram Stoker, Fritz Leiber, Richard Matheson, Robert Bloch, Charles L. Grant, Tanith Lee, and other masters of the macabre. Careful--they are all crafty enough to steal their way into your imagination and steal away your hopes for a restful sleep.
Table of Contents:
- Introduction - essay by Alan Ryan
- Fragment of a Novel - (1816) - shortstory by Lord George Gordon Byron
- The Vampyre: A Tale - (1819) - novelette by Dr. John William Polidori
- Varney, the Vampyre; or, The Feast of Blood (excerpt) - (1847) - shortfiction by James Malcolm Rymer
- The Mysterious Stranger - (1823) - novelette by Anonymous
- Carmilla - (1872) - novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
- Good Lady Ducayne - (1896) - novelette by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
- Dracula's Guest - (1914) - shortstory by Bram Stoker
- Luella Miller - (1902) - shortstory by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
- For the Blood Is the Life - (1905) - shortstory by F. Marion Crawford
- The Transfer - (1911) - shortstory by Algernon Blackwood
- The Room in the Tower - (1912) - shortstory by E. F. Benson
- An Episode of Cathedral History - (1914) - shortstory by M. R. James
- A Rendezvous in Averoigne - (1931) - shortstory by Clark Ashton Smith
- Shambleau - (1933) - novelette by C. L. Moore
- Revelations in Black - (1933) - novelette by Carl Jacobi
- School for the Unspeakable - (1937) - shortstory by Manly Wade Wellman
- The Drifting Snow - (1939) - shortstory by August Derleth
- Over the River - (1941) - shortstory by P. Schuyler Miller
- The Girl with the Hungry Eyes - (1949) - shortstory by Fritz Leiber
- The Mindworm - (1950) - shortstory by C. M. Kornbluth
- Drink My Blood - (1951) - shortstory by Richard Matheson
- Place of Meeting - (1953) - shortstory by Charles Beaumont
- The Living Dead - (1967) - shortstory by Robert Bloch (variant of Underground)
- Pages from a Young Girl's Journal - (1973) - novelette by Robert Aickman
- The Werewolf and the Vampire - (1975) - novelette by R. Chetwynd-Hayes
- Love-Starved - (1979) - shortstory by Charles L. Grant
- Cabin 33 - (1980) - novella by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
- Unicorn Tapestry - (1980) - novella by Suzy McKee Charnas
- Following the Way - (1982) - shortstory by Alan Ryan
- The Sunshine Club - (1983) - shortstory by Ramsey Campbell
- The Men and Women of Rivendale - (1984) - shortstory by Steve Rasnic Tem
- Bite-Me-Not or, Fleur de Feu - (1984) - novelette by Tanith Lee
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