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