Includes bibliographical references (pages 919-1029)
Contents:
Pre-Dracula. Good Lady Ducayne / M.E. Braddon ; The last lords of Gardonal / William Gilbert ; A mystery of the campagna / Anne Crawford ; The fate of Madame Cabanel / Eliza Lynn Linton ; Let loose / Mary Cholmondeley ; The vampire / Vasile Alecsandri ; The death of Halpin Frayser / Ambrose Bierce ; Ken's mystery / Julian Hawthorne ; Carmilla / Sheridan Le Fanu ; The tomb of Sarah / F.G. Loring ; Ligeia / Edgar Allan Poe ; The old portrait / Hume Nisbet ; The vampire maid / Hume Nisbet True stories. The sad story of a vampire / Eric (Count) Stenbock ; A case of alleged vampirism / Luigi Capuana ; An authenticated vampire story / Franz Hartmann Graveyards, castles, churches, ruins. Revelations in black / Carl Jacobi ; The master of Rampling Gate / Anne Rice ; The vampire of Kaldenstein / Frederick Cowles ; An episode of cathedral history / M.R. James ; Schloss Wappenburg / D. Scott-Moncrieff ; The hound / H.P. Lovecraft ; Bite-me-not, or, Fleur de fur / Tanith Lee ; The horror at Chilton Castle / Joseph Payne Brennan ; The singular death of Morton / Algernon Blackwood ; The death of Ilalotha / Clark Ashton Smith That's poetic. The bride of Corinth / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ; The giaour / Lord Byron ; La belle dame sans merci / John Keats Hard times for vampires. Place of meeting / Charles Beaumont ; Duty / Ed Gorman ; A week in the unlife / David J. Schow Classic tales. Four wooden stakes / Victor Roman ; The room in the tower / E.F. Benson ; Mrs. Amworth / E.F. Benson ; Doctor Porthos / Basil Copper ; For the blood is life / F. Marion Crawford ; Count Magnus / M.R. James ; When it was moonlight / Manly Wade Wellman ; The drifting snow / August Derleth ; Aylmer Vance and the vampire / Alice and Claude Askew ; Dracula's guest / Bram Stoker ; The transfer / Algernon Blackwood ; The stone chamber / H.B. Marriott Watson ; The vampire / Jan Neruda ; The end of the story / Clark Ashton Smith Psychic vampires. The lovely lady / D.H. Lawrence ; The parasite / Arthur Conan Doyle ; Lonely women are the vessels of time Something feels funny. Blood / Frederic Brown ; Popsy / Stephen King ; The werewolf and the vampire / R. Chetwynd-Hayes ; Drink my red blood / Richard Matheson ; Dayblood / Roger Zelazny Love-- forever. Replacements / Lisa Tuttle ; Princess of darkness / Frederick Cowles ; The silver collar / Garry Kilworth ; The old man's story / Walter Starkie ; Will / Vincent O'Sullivan ; Blood-lust / Dion Fortune ; The canal / Everil Worrell ; When Gretchen was human / Mary A. Turzillo They gather. The men & women of Rivendale / Steve Rasnic Tem ; Winter flowers / Tanith Lee ; The man who loved the vampire lady / Brian Stableford ; Midnight mass / F. Paul Wilson Is that a vampire? The adventure of the Sussex vampire / Arthur Conan Doyle ; A dead finger / Sabine Baring-Gould ; Wailing well / M.R. James ; Human remains / Clive Barker ; The vampire / Sydney Horler ; Stragella / Hugh B. Cave ; Marsyas in Flanders / Vernon Lee ; The horla / Guy de Maupassant ; The girl with the hungry eyes / Fritz Leiber This is war. The living dead / Robert Bloch ; Down among the dead men / Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann Modern masters. Necros / Brian Lumley ; The man upstairs / Ray Bradbury ; Chastel / Manly Wade Wellman ; Dracula's chair / Peter Tremayne ; Special / Richard Laymon ; Carrion comfort / Dan Simmons ; The sea was wet as wet could be / Gahan Wilson ; The vampire: a bibliography / Daniel Seitler