TY - BOOK AU - Gaiman,Neil AU - Newman,Kim AU - Penzler,Otto TI - The vampire archives: the most complete volume of vampire tales ever published T2 - Vintage crime/Black Lizard SN - 0307473899 (pbk.) PY - 2009/// CY - New York, N.Y. PB - Vintage Books KW - Horror tales, American KW - Vampires KW - Fiction N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 919-1029); Pre-Dracula; Good Lady Ducayne; M.E. Braddon; The last lords of Gardonal; William Gilbert; A mystery of the campagna; Anne Crawford; The fate of Madame Cabanel; Eliza Lynn Linton; Let loose; Mary Cholmondeley; The vampire; Vasile Alecsandri; The death of Halpin Frayser; Ambrose Bierce; Ken's mystery; Julian Hawthorne; Carmilla; Sheridan Le Fanu; The tomb of Sarah; F.G. Loring; Ligeia; Edgar Allan Poe; The old portrait; Hume Nisbet; The vampire maid; Hume Nisbet --; True stories; The sad story of a vampire; Eric (Count) Stenbock; A case of alleged vampirism; Luigi Capuana; An authenticated vampire story; Franz Hartmann --; Graveyards, castles, churches, ruins; Revelations in black; Carl Jacobi; The master of Rampling Gate; Anne Rice; The vampire of Kaldenstein; Frederick Cowles; An episode of cathedral history; M.R. James; Schloss Wappenburg; D. Scott-Moncrieff; The hound; H.P. Lovecraft; Bite-me-not, or, Fleur de fur; Tanith Lee; The horror at Chilton Castle; Joseph Payne Brennan; The singular death of Morton; Algernon Blackwood; The death of Ilalotha; Clark Ashton Smith --; That's poetic; The bride of Corinth; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; The giaour; Lord Byron; La belle dame sans merci; John Keats --; Hard times for vampires; Place of meeting; Charles Beaumont; Duty; Ed Gorman; A week in the unlife; David J. Schow --; Classic tales; Four wooden stakes; Victor Roman; The room in the tower; E.F. Benson; Mrs. Amworth; E.F. Benson; Doctor Porthos; Basil Copper; For the blood is life; F. Marion Crawford; Count Magnus; M.R. James; When it was moonlight; Manly Wade Wellman; The drifting snow; August Derleth; Aylmer Vance and the vampire; Alice and Claude Askew; Dracula's guest; Bram Stoker; The transfer; Al N2 - 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 ER -