Alan Ryan - Vampires

[Gloomy Sundae]

The Penguin Book Of Vampire Stories - ed. Alan Ryan (Penguin, 1988, originally "Vampires: Two Centuries Of Great Vampire Stories", Doubleday, 1987)

Introduction - Alan Ryan

Lord Byron - Fragment of A Novel
John Polidori - The Vampyre
James Malcolm Rymer - Varney The Vampyre, or The Feast Of Blood [excerpt]
Anonymous - The Mysterious Stranger
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - Carmilla
Mary Elizabeth Braddon - Good Lady Ducayne
Bram Stoker - Dracula's Guest
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman - Luella Miller
Francis Marion Crawford - For The Blood Is The Life
Algernon Blackwood - The Transfer
E. F. Benson - The Room In The Tower
M. R. James - An Episode of Cathedral History
Clark Ashton Smith - A Rendezvous In Averoigne
C. L. Moore - Shambleau
Carl Jacobi - Revelations In Black
Manly Wade Wellman - School For The Unspeakable
August Derleth - The Drifting Snow
P. Schuyler Miller - Over The River
Fritz Leiber - The Girl with the Hungry Eyes
C. M. Kornbluth - The Mindworm
Richard Matheson - Drink My Blood
Charles Beaumont - Place Of Meeting
Robert Aickman - Pages From A Young Girl's Journal
R. Chetwynd-Hayes - The Werewolf And The Vampire
Charles L. Grant - Love-Starved
Chelsea Quinn Yarbo - Cabin 33
Suzy McKee Charnas - Unicorn Tapestry
Alan Ryan - Following The Way
Ramsey Campbell - The Sunshine Club
Steve Rasnic Tem - The Men And Women Of Rivendale
Tanith Lee - Bite-Me-Not or, Fleur De Feu

Appendix I: Vampire Novels
Appendix II: Vampire Movies

Graced with a beautiful cover illustration by Edward Gorey, Ryan's collection attempts to compile the very best of close-on 200 years work, and outline the changing nature of vampire fiction from the crude (and bloody entertaining!) likes of Rhymer's melodrama, through to the present, look!-no-gothic-props exponents of the form. Like Haining's The Midnight People, a great place to begin your acquaintance with the undead.