The vampire archives : the most complete volume of vampire tales ever published /
The vampire archives : the most complete volume of vampire tales ever published /
edited with an introduction by Otto Penzler ; foreward by Kim Newman ; preface by Neil Gaiman.
- New York, N.Y. : Vintage Books, c2009.
- xix, 1034 p. ; 24 cm.
- Vintage crime/Black Lizard .
- Vintage crime/Black Lizard. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 919-1029)
Pre-Dracula. Good Lady Ducayne / The last lords of Gardonal / A mystery of the campagna / The fate of Madame Cabanel / Let loose / The vampire / The death of Halpin Frayser / Ken's mystery / Carmilla / The tomb of Sarah / Ligeia / The old portrait / The vampire maid / True stories. The sad story of a vampire / A case of alleged vampirism / An authenticated vampire story / Graveyards, castles, churches, ruins. Revelations in black / The master of Rampling Gate / The vampire of Kaldenstein / An episode of cathedral history / Schloss Wappenburg / The hound / Bite-me-not, or, Fleur de fur / The horror at Chilton Castle / The singular death of Morton / The death of Ilalotha / That's poetic. The bride of Corinth / The giaour / La belle dame sans merci / Hard times for vampires. Place of meeting / Duty / A week in the unlife / Classic tales. Four wooden stakes / The room in the tower / Mrs. Amworth / Doctor Porthos / For the blood is life / Count Magnus / When it was moonlight / The drifting snow / Aylmer Vance and the vampire / Dracula's guest / The transfer / M.E. Braddon ; William Gilbert ; Anne Crawford ; Eliza Lynn Linton ; Mary Cholmondeley ; Vasile Alecsandri ; Ambrose Bierce ; Julian Hawthorne ; Sheridan Le Fanu ; F.G. Loring ; Edgar Allan Poe ; Hume Nisbet ; Hume Nisbet -- Eric (Count) Stenbock ; Luigi Capuana ; Franz Hartmann -- Carl Jacobi ; Anne Rice ; Frederick Cowles ; M.R. James ; D. Scott-Moncrieff ; H.P. Lovecraft ; Tanith Lee ; Joseph Payne Brennan ; Algernon Blackwood ; Clark Ashton Smith -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ; Lord Byron ; John Keats -- Charles Beaumont ; Ed Gorman ; David J. Schow -- Victor Roman ; E.F. Benson ; E.F. Benson ; Basil Copper ; F. Marion Crawford ; M.R. James ; Manly Wade Wellman ; August Derleth ; Alice and Claude Askew ; Bram Stoker ; Al
Vampires! Whether imagined by Bram Stoker or Anne Rice, they are part of the human lexicon and as old as blood itself. They are your neighbors, your friends, and they are always lurking. Now Otto Penzlereditor of the bestselling Black Lizard Big Book of Pulpshas compiled the darkest, the scariest, and by far the most evil collection of vampire stories ever. With over eighty stories, including the works of Stephen King and D. H. Lawrence, alongside Lord Byron and Tanith Lee, not to mention Edgar Allan Poe and Harlan Ellison, The Vampire Archives will drive a stake through the heart of any other collection out there.
0307473899 (pbk.) 9780307473899 (pbk.)
2009008864
Horror tales, American.
Vampires--Fiction.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 919-1029)
Pre-Dracula. Good Lady Ducayne / The last lords of Gardonal / A mystery of the campagna / The fate of Madame Cabanel / Let loose / The vampire / The death of Halpin Frayser / Ken's mystery / Carmilla / The tomb of Sarah / Ligeia / The old portrait / The vampire maid / True stories. The sad story of a vampire / A case of alleged vampirism / An authenticated vampire story / Graveyards, castles, churches, ruins. Revelations in black / The master of Rampling Gate / The vampire of Kaldenstein / An episode of cathedral history / Schloss Wappenburg / The hound / Bite-me-not, or, Fleur de fur / The horror at Chilton Castle / The singular death of Morton / The death of Ilalotha / That's poetic. The bride of Corinth / The giaour / La belle dame sans merci / Hard times for vampires. Place of meeting / Duty / A week in the unlife / Classic tales. Four wooden stakes / The room in the tower / Mrs. Amworth / Doctor Porthos / For the blood is life / Count Magnus / When it was moonlight / The drifting snow / Aylmer Vance and the vampire / Dracula's guest / The transfer / M.E. Braddon ; William Gilbert ; Anne Crawford ; Eliza Lynn Linton ; Mary Cholmondeley ; Vasile Alecsandri ; Ambrose Bierce ; Julian Hawthorne ; Sheridan Le Fanu ; F.G. Loring ; Edgar Allan Poe ; Hume Nisbet ; Hume Nisbet -- Eric (Count) Stenbock ; Luigi Capuana ; Franz Hartmann -- Carl Jacobi ; Anne Rice ; Frederick Cowles ; M.R. James ; D. Scott-Moncrieff ; H.P. Lovecraft ; Tanith Lee ; Joseph Payne Brennan ; Algernon Blackwood ; Clark Ashton Smith -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ; Lord Byron ; John Keats -- Charles Beaumont ; Ed Gorman ; David J. Schow -- Victor Roman ; E.F. Benson ; E.F. Benson ; Basil Copper ; F. Marion Crawford ; M.R. James ; Manly Wade Wellman ; August Derleth ; Alice and Claude Askew ; Bram Stoker ; Al
Vampires! Whether imagined by Bram Stoker or Anne Rice, they are part of the human lexicon and as old as blood itself. They are your neighbors, your friends, and they are always lurking. Now Otto Penzler
0307473899 (pbk.) 9780307473899 (pbk.)
2009008864
Horror tales, American.
Vampires--Fiction.