The Penguin Book of Vampire Stories: Two Centuries of Great Stories with a Bite

Thematic collection of fiction inspired by the vampire legend, by (mostly) British and American authors and spanning the 19th and 20th centuries. Altogether, two novellas, two novel excerpts (and one unfinished fragment of a novel), and 26 short stories are included. This collection was originally published (by Doubleday) as Vampires: Two Centuries of Great Vampire Stories. CONTENTS Introduction by Alan Ryan Fragment of a Novel (1816) George Gordon, Lord Byron The Vampyre (1819) John Polidori Varney the Vampyre, or, the Feast of Blood (excerpt) (1845) James Malcolm Rymer The Mysterious Stranger (1860) Anonymous Carmilla (1872) J. Sheridan Le Fanu Good Lady Ducayne (1896) Mary Elizabeth Braddon Dracula's Guest (1897) Bram Stoker Luella Miller (1903) Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman For the Blood Is the Life (1911) F. Marion Crawford The Transfer (1912) Algernon Blackwood The Room in the Tower (1912) E. F. Benson An Episode of Cathedral History (1919) M. R. James A Rendezvous in Averoigne (1931) Clark Ashton Smith Shambleau (1933) C. L. Moore Revelations in Black (1933) Carl Jacobi School for the Unspeakable (1937) Manly Wade Wellman The Drifting Snow (1939) August Derleth Over the River (1941) P. Schuyler Miller The Girl with the Hungry Eyes (1949) Fritz Leiber The Mindworm (1950) C. M. Kornbluth Drink My Blood (1951) Richard Matheson Place of Meeting (1953) Charles Beaumont The Living Dead (1967) Robert Bloch Pages from a Young Girl's Journal (1975) Robert Aickman The Werewolf and the Vampire (1975) R. Chetwynd-Hayes Love-Starved (1979) Charles L. Grant Cabin 33 (1980) Chelsea Quinn Yarbro Unicorn Tapestry (1980) Suzy McKee Charnas Following the Way (1982) Alan Ryan The Sunshine Club (1983) Ramsey Campbell The Men & Women of Rivendale (1984) Steve Rasnic Tem Bite-Me-Not or, Fleur De Feu (1984) Tanith Lee Appendix I: Vampire Novels Appendix II: Vampire Movies