Dracula's guest and other Victorian vampire stories
By: edited by Michael Sims.
Contributors: Sims, Michael, 1958-
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Walker & Co.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 467
ISBN-13: 9780802719713
Subjects: Vampires -- Fiction; Horror tales, English
Genres: Fiction
Description: A treasury of Victorian-era vampire stories includes Edgar Allan Poe's "The Oval Portrait" and Guy de Maupassant's "The Horla," in an anthology complemented by Transylvanian superstitions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: They opened the graves / by Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens; title: Dead persons in Hungary / by Antoine Augustin Calmet; title: End of my journey / by George Gordon, Lord Byron; title: Vampyre / by John Polidori; title: Wake not the dead / attributed to Johann Ludwig Tieck; title: Deathly lover / by Theophile Gautier; title: Family of the Vourdalak / by Aleksei Tolstoy; title: Varney the vampyre / by James Malcolm Rymer; title: What was it? / by Fitz-James O'Brien; title: Mysterious stranger / by Anonymous; title: A mystery of the Campagna / by Anne Crawford; title: Death and burial- vampires and were-wolves / by Emily Gerard; title: Let loose / by Mary Cholmondeley; title: A true story of a vampire / by Eric, Count Stenbock; title: Good Lady Ducayne / by Mary Elizabeth Braddon; title: And the creature came in / by Augustus Hare; title: Tomb of Sarah / by F.G. Loring; title: Vampire maid / by Hume Nisbet; title: Luella Miller / by Mary E.Wilkins Freeman; title: Count Magnus / by M.R. James; title: Aylmer Vance and the vampire / by Alice and Claude Askew; title: Fruit / by Bram Stoker.