Classic tales of vampires and shapeshifters
By: compiled by Tig Thomas
Publisher: Miles Kelly
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Thaxted, Essex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9781848105416
Subjects: Juvenile fiction; Vampires; Shapeshifting; English Horror tales
Description: "You are about to enter the realm of the vampire, that blood-sucking creature that fascinates our senses yet fills us with dread. This unique collection contains classic stories and extracts by established masters of horror such as Bram Stoker, M R James and Sheridan Le Fanu. So prepare to be thrilled, and chilled, as their bloodthirsty imaginations take you on a journey of unimaginable terror."--Amazon.
Table of contents: title: Count Magnus  -- M.R. James; title: Varney the vampyre  -- James Malcolm Rymer; title: The horror from the mound  -- Robert E. Howard; title: The death of Lucy  -- Bram Stoker; title: Gabriel-Ernest  -- Saki; title: A tragedy of the forest  -- Stanley Waterloo; title: The grey wolf  -- George Macdonald; title: The mark of the beast  -- Rudyard Kipling; title: The white wolf of Hartz Mountain  -- Frederick Marryat; title: Croglin Grange  -- from Archdeacon Hare's autobiography; title: The other side: a Breton legend  -- Eric Stenbock; title: The room in the tower  -- E.F. Benson; title: The hound  -- H.P. Lovecraft; title: Dracula's guest  -- Bram Stoker; title: The vampire cat of Nabeshima  -- Anon; title: Mrs. Amworth  -- E.F. Benson; title: Carmilla  -- Sheridan Le Fanu; title: The vampire maid  -- Hume Nisbet; title: Clairmonde  -- Theophile Gautier; title: The horla  -- Guy de Maupassant; title: The werewolf  -- Eugene Field; title: Aylmer Vance and the vampire  -- Alice and Claude Askew; title: Vampire  -- Jan Neruda; title: The freeing of Lucy  -- Bram Stoker; title: The cold embrace -- Mary E. Braddon.