Vintage Vampire Stories
Author: Robert Eighteen-Bisang
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Published: 2011-05
Total Pages: 375
ISBN-13: 1616082348
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of macabre tales originally published from 1679 to 1909.
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The Best Vampire Stories 1800-1849
Author: Joseph Le Fanu
Publisher: Bottletree Books LLC
Published: 2012-02
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1933747358
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this International Book Awards anthology finalist, the best vampire short stories from the first half of the 19th century are unearthed from long forgotten journals and magazines. They are collected for the first time in this groundbreaking book on the origins of vampire lore. Watch the book trailer: www.AndrewBarger.com/bestvampirestories1800.html The cradle of all vampire short stories in the English language is the first half of the 19th century. Andrew Barger combed forgotten journals and mysterious texts to collect the very best vintage vampire stories from this crucial period in vampire literature. In doing so, Andrew found the second and third vampire stories originally published in the English language, neither printed since their first publication nearly 200 years ago. Also included is the first vampire story originally written in English by John Polidori after a dare with Lord Byron and Mary Shelley. The book contains the first vampire story by an American who was a graduate of Columbia Law School. The book further includes the first vampire stories by an Englishman and German, including the only vampire stories by such renowned authors as Alexander Dumas, Théophile Gautier and Joseph le Fanu. As readers have come to expect from Andrew, he has added his scholarly touch to this collection by including story backgrounds, author photos and a foreword titled "With Teeth." The ground-breaking stories are: 1819 The Vampyre - John Polidori (1795-1821) 1823 Wake Not the Dead - Ernst Raupach 1848 The Vampire of the Carpathian Mountains - Alexander Dumas (1802-1870) 1839 Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter - Joseph Sheridan le Fanu (1814-1873) 1826 Pepopukin in Corsica - Arthur Young (1741-1820) 1819 The Black Vampyre: A Legend of Saint Domingo - Robert Sands (1799-1832) 1836 Clarimonde - Théophile Gautier (1811-1872)
Vampires in the Lemon Grove
Author: Karen Russell
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 0307957233
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of stories features a pair of centuries-old vampires whose relationship is tested by a sudden fear of flying, a dejected teen who communicates with the universe, and a massage therapist who heals a tattooed veteran by manipulating the imageson his body.
Vampires: Classic Tales
Author: Mike Ashley
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2013-12-10
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 0486321037
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on a 200-year-old tradition, this original collection features a deft combination of vintage vampire tales with more contemporary stories. Anthologist Mike Ashley introduces a dozen fantasies that weave together dark, psychological elements with well-recognized vampire themes. His notes trace the development of vampire fiction, illustrating the genre's life beyond the well-known conventions established by Bram Stoker's Dracula. Selections range from Lord Byron's contribution to the legendary storytelling session that produced Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to Nancy Holder's "Blood Gothic," a modern perspective on the corrupting influence of the romantic vampire image. Additional contributors include Alexandre Dumas, Karl von Wachsmann, Tanith Lee, Elizabeth Lynn Linton, Julian Osgood Field, R. Murray Gilchrist, Dick Donovan, Brian Stableford, Sidney Bertram, and Ernst Raupach.
La Vida Vampire
Author: Nancy Haddock
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2008-04-01
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 1101206993
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst in a delightfully irreverent new series-and second to none when it comes to beautiful 227-year-old career women. Being dead isn't all it's cracked up to be. Take it from Francesca Marinelli, trapped underground for over 200 years and rediscovered during the renovation of a Victorian mansion in historic St. Augustine. A tourist attraction herself, she's well suited for a job as an Old Ghost Town Tour guide. Francesca's due for a new lease on afterlife-and with enough sunblock, she can finally live it. Unfortunately, everything she learned about men is a little dated. And when people in her tour group turn up dead, naturally the police suspect her. After all, she is a vampire. Which is why a crazed vampire-hunting vigilante squad is out to get her as well. Between the dead bodies, the stalkers, and a seriously non-existent love life, she's starting to wish she was dead. Or at least buried, where she was safe.
I, Vampire
Author: Michael Romkey
Publisher: Fawcett
Published: 1990-07-01
Total Pages: 369
ISBN-13: 0449146383
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom yesterday to a hundred years ago, he lives in the world and walks among us. He enjoys the finest things in life, including beautfiul women, well-aged wine, and the finest classical composers. He has no guilt—he has no need of it. Neither good, nor bad, neither angel nor devil, he is a man, he is a vampire. And this is his story. . . . “Women are my weakness. Or to be more accurate, I should say they are my greatest weakness, for I have many. Travel. Books. Classical music. Art. Excellent wine. And, formerly, cocaine. I admit these things without a sense of guilt. I am, as my friend from Vienna says, a man with a man’s contradictions. I am neither good nor bad, neither angel nor devil. I am a man. I am a vampire.”—From I, Vampire
Dracula's Guest
Author: Michael Sims
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2011-10-03
Total Pages: 522
ISBN-13: 1408828537
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEven in the twenty-first century, the undead walk among us... Before Twilight and True Blood, vampires haunted the nineteenth century, when brilliant writers indulged their bloodthirsty imaginations, culminating in Bram Stoker's legendary 1897 novel, Dracula. Acclaimed author and anthologist Michael Sims brings together the finest vampire stories of the Victorian era in a unique collection that highlights their cultural variety. Beginning with the supposedly true accounts that captivated Byron and Shelley, the stories range from Aleksei Tolstoy's tale of a vampire family to Fitz James O'Brien's invisible monster to Mary Elizabeth Braddon's rich and sinister widow, Good Lady Ducayne. Sims also includes a nineteenth-century travel tour of Transylvanian superstitions, and finishes the collection with Stoker's own Dracula's Guest - a chapter omitted from his landmark novel. Vampires captivated Victorian society, and these wonderful stories demonstrate how Romantic and Victorian writers refined the raw ore of peasant superstition into a whole vampire mythology of aristocratic decadence and innocence betrayed.
Classic Vampire Stories
Author: Molly Cooper
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780760706107
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFamous Vampire Stories
Author: Tom Baker
Publisher:
Published: 2022-07-08
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781387802883
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"I was Dracula every year for Halloween! Some little tykes want to be policemen when they grow up. I wanted to be Bela Lugosi!" --From the editor's introduction Come thrill with us through the unhallowed halls of the sepulchral and distorted UNDEADas we thrill-ride through fifteen classic vampire tales certain to get your blood-chilling in your veins. Ranging from classic novellas such as Le Fanu's "Carmilla," to the spectral excursions of famed horrorologist H.P. Lovecraft, this unearthly tome recounts even TRUE vampire lore as well as the literary classics of chilling fright. So come on! Your casket is waiting, the coach is stamping in the castle courtyard, and the children of the night are making their music! For as Bela might say, "The blood is the life, Mr. Renfield! The blood is the life!" Stories by Byron, LeFanu, Conan Doyle, Polidori, and more!
An Old Friend of the Family
Author: Fred Saberhagen
Publisher: JSS Literary Productions, LLC
Published: 2020-01-30
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 1937422194
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDr Emile Corday, aka Dracula, is summoned to the aid of the Sutherland family, descendants of his great love, Mina Harker. Corday finds himself facing a rebellious faction of American vampires out to see him and anyone he cares for annihilated. Leading his adversaries is the evil and alluring enchantress Morgan Le Fay. Corday, the Sutherland family, and policeman Joe Koegh will cross paths again in Saberhagen’s Dracula series.
