Vampire Stories
Edition: printing (1)
Publisher: Clydesdale
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9781939082947
Copyright date: 2009
Description: Each of these twelve short stories has been carefully selected for this first-ever collection. Conan Doyle•s friendship with Dracula author Bram Stoker is thought to havc influenced these tales which include The Captain of the Pole Star.- about a medical student 00 an arctic voyage haunted by a heat-draining Eskimo vampire. and *The Threc Gables" in which vampirism is cunningly used as a metaphor for capitalism. "The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire" even sees the return of Sherlock Holmes. literature's most famous detective. This collcction is essential reading for all vampire lovers and for Conan Doyle enthusiasts.
Table of contents: title: INTRODUCTION by Robert Eighteen-Bisang		VII; title: The American's Tale		3; title: The Captain of the Pole-star		12; title: John Barrington Cowles		39; title: The Ring of Thoth		66; title: The Winning Shot		86; title: The Parasite		123; title: The Adventure of the Illustrious Client		171; title: The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire		200; title: The Adventure of the Three Gables		219; title: The Case of the Vanished Vampire by Bill Crider		239; title: A SHERLOCK HOLMES VAMPIRE BIBLIOGRAPHY by Robert Eighteen-Bisang		257; title: ABOUT THE EDITORS		273