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Dracula's guest : a connoisseur's collection of Victorian vampire stories / edited by Michael Sims. - 1st U.S. ed. - London : Bloomsbury, 2010. - 467 p. ; 21 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 465-467).

Introduction: the cost of living / They opened the graves / Dead persons in Hungary / End of my journey / Vampyre / Wake not the dead / Deathly lover / Family of the Vourdalak / Varney the vampyre / What was it? / Mysterious stranger / Mystery of the Campagna / Death and burial- vampires and were-wolves / Let loose / True story of a vampire / Good Lady Ducayne / And the creature came in / Tomb of Sarah / Vampire maid / Luella Miller / Count Magnus / Aylmer Vance and the vampire / Dracula's guest / by Michael Sims -- by Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens -- by Antoine Augustin Calmet -- by George Gordon, Lord Byron -- by John Polidori -- attributed to Johann Ludwig Tieck -- by Théophile Gautier -- by Aleksei Tolstoy -- by James Malcolm Rymer -- by Fitz-James O'Brien -- by Anonymous -- by Anne Crawford -- by Emily Gerard -- by Mary Cholmondeley -- by Eric, Count Stenbock -- by Mary Elizabeth Braddon -- by Augustus Hare -- by F.G. Loring -- by Hume Nisbet -- by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman -- by M.R. James -- by Alice and Claude Askew -- by Bram Stoker. The The The The The A A The The

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.

9781408808252 978654321


Vampires--Fiction.
Horror tales, English.
Horror tales


Short stories.

F 823.0873808 / D757

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