New Anthology of Vampire Short Horror Stories
by The Undead Rat on October 11, 2009
This weekend spotlights a couple of horror anthologies with no common theme between them other than some really good short horror stories.
Today’s selection is a huge anthology of vampire stories from across time and space that it may just become a “must-read” anthology for any student of vampires or vampire aficionado.
I’ve never seen several of the stories contained within or read works by a number of the authors collected. It has gone on my must-read list.
Remember, if you are interested in this book, click the mouse on the book cover to order it from an online bookseller.
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The Vampire Archives: The Most Complete Volume of Vampire Tales Ever Published
Editors: Penzler, Otto
Format: Trade Paperback
Type: Anthology
Page Count: 1056pp.
Pub. Date: September 29, 2009
Publisher: Vintage
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The Vampire Archives is the biggest, hungriest, undeadliest collection of vampire stories, as well as the most comprehensive bibliography of vampire fiction ever assembled. Dark, stormy, and delicious, once it sinks its teeth into you there’s no escape.
Vampires! Whether imagined by Bram Stroker or Anne Rice, they are part of the human lexicon and as old as blood itself. They are your neighbors, your friends, and they are always lurking. Now Otto Penzler — editor of the bestselling Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps — has compiled the darkest, the scariest, and by far the most evil collection of vampire stories ever.
With over eighty stories, including the works of Stephen King and D. H. Lawrence, alongside Lord Byron and Tanith Lee, not to mention Edgar Allan Poe and Harlan Ellison, The Vampire Archives will drive a stake through the heart of any other collection out there.
Table of Contents:
- Foreword by Kim Newman
- Preface by Neil Gaiman
- Introduction: They Will Have Blood by Otto Penzler
- Pre-Dracula
- Good Lady Ducayne by M. E. Braddon
- The Last Lords of Gardonal by William Gilbert
- A Mystery of the Campagna by Anne Crawford
- The Fate of Madame Cabanel by Eliza Lynn Linton
- Let Loose by Mary Cholmondeley
- The Vampire by Vasile Alecsandri
- The Death of Halpin Frayser by Ambrose Bierce
- Ken’s Mystery by Julian Hawthorne
- Carmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu
- The Tomb of Sarah by F. G. Loring
- Ligeia by Edgar Allan Poe
- The Old Portrait by Hume Nisbet
- The Vampire Maid by Hume Nisbet
- True Stories
- The Sad Story of a Vampire by Eric (Count) Stenbock
- A Case of Alleged Vampirism by Luigi Capuana
- An Authenticated Vampire Story by Franz Hartmann
- Graveyards, Castles, Churches, Ruins
- Revelations in Black by Carl Jacobi
- The Master of Rampling Gate by Anne Rice
- The Vampire of Kaldenstein by Frederick Cowles
- An Episode of Cathedral History by M. R. James
- Schloss Wappenburg by D. Scott-Moncrieff
- The Hound by H. P. Lovecraft
- Bite-Me-Not or, Fleur de Fur by Tanith Lee
- The Horror at Chilton Castle by Joseph Payne Brennan
- The Singular Death of Morton by Algernon Blackwood
- The Death of Ilalotha by Clark Ashton Smith
- That’s Poetic
- The Bride of Corinth by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- The Giaour: A Fragment of a Turkish Tale by Lord Byron
- La Belle Dame Sans Merci: A Ballad by John Keats
- Hard Times for Vampires
- Place of Meeting by Charles Beaumont
- Duty by Ed Gorman
- A Week in the Unlife by David J. Schow
- Classic Tales
- Four Wooden Stakes by Victor Roman
- The Room in the Tower by E. F. Benson
- Mrs. Amworth by E. F. Benson
- Doctor Porthos by Basil Copper
- For the Blood is the Life by F. Marion Crawford
- Count Magnus by M. R. James
- When It Was Moonlight by Manly Wade Wellman
- The Drifting Snow by August Derleth
- Aylmer Vance and the Vampire by Alice and Claude Askew
- Dracula’s Guest by Bram Stoker
- The Transfer by Algernon Blackwood
- The Stone Chamber by H. B. Marriott Watson
- The Vampire by Jan Neruda
- The End of the Story by Clark Ashton Smith
- Psychic Vampires
- The Lovely Lady by D. H. Lawrence
- The Parasite by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Lonely Women Are the Vessels of Time by Harlan Ellison
- Something Feels Funny
- Blood by Fredric Brown
- Popsy by Stephen King
- The Werewolf and the Vampire by R. Chetwynd-Hayes
- Drink My Red Blood by Richard Matheson
- Dayblood by Roger Zelazny
- Love . . . Forever
- Replacements by Lisa Tuttle
- Princess of Darkness by Frederick Cowles
- The Silver Collar by Garry Kilworth
- The Old Man’s Story by Walter Starkie
- Will by Vincent O’Sullivan
- Blood-Lust by Dion Fortune
- The Canal by Everil Worrell
- When Gretchen Was Human by Mary A. Turzillo
- The Story of Chugoro by Lafcadio Hearn
- They Gather
- The Men and Women of Rivendale by Steve Rasnic Tem
- Winter Flowers by Tanith Lee
- The Man Who Loved the Vampire Lady by Brian Stableford
- Midnight Mass by F. Paul Wilson
- Is That a Vampire?
- The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire by Arthur Conan Doyle
- A Dead Finger by Sabine Baring-Gould
- Wailing Well by M. R. James
- Human Remains by Clive Barker
- The Vampire by Sydney Horler
- Stragella by Hugh B. Cave
- Marsyas in Flanders by Vernon Lee
- The Horla by Guy de Maupassant
- The Girl with the Hungry Eyes by Fritz Leiber
- This is War
- The Living Dead by Robert Bloch
- Down Among the Dead Men by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann
- Modern Masters
- Necros by Brian Lumley
- The Man Upstairs by Ray Bradbury
- Chastel by Manley Wade Wellman
- Dracula’s Chair by Peter Tremayne
- Special by Richard Laymon
- Carrion Comfort (Original Short Story) by Dan Simmons
- The Sea Was Wet as Wet Could Be by Gahan Wilson
- The Vampire: A Bibliography Compiled by Daniel Seitler
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Hi Greg, nice list of titles here. Just wanted to let you know that our annual scary stories posts will be going up on Blogging for a Good Book starting 10/19. Cheers!
Barry
Hm, the link did not work in my previous post, it is bfgb.wordpress.com. Happy reading.
Thanks for posting about this book. It looks like one that I would like to read. I have just placed a hold on it from my library.
Hey Barry,
Thanks for stopping by and reminding me about your annual scary scary stories posts.
I’ve suffered The-Mother-of-All-Sinus/Allergy/Colds-Seasons this year and I’ve been relying on drugs to prop me up since early September. Unfortunately it has the side effect of making me forgetful and tired. Without your heads-up I would have missed it and that would have been unhappy making.
I’m going to promote it on …With Intent again. (Hey, what fun is having a blog if you can’t do things like this?)
–Greg “Sniffles” Fisher
P.S. I fixed Barry’s link — it works now. Check it out.
Many thanks, Greg. I hope your respiratory ailments clear up soon. All the best!
Barry
Hello Deanna,
I think you’ll like it, especially if you enjoy classic style writing.
One thing I loved — and of course forgot to mention — were the introductions before each piece.
Otto Penzler briefly introduced the author of each piece. Some of these authors that I’d never heard of had unusual lives and a couple were complete mysteries — possibly pen names of an unknown person. The last paragraph gave a brief account of the original publication(s) of the story.
I love that stuff.
–Greg