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The Vampire Archives

The Vampire Archives

Horror Short Stories

August Derleth, Mary A. Turzillo, Otto Penzler, Richard Laymon, Tanith Lee, Mary Cholmondeley, Violet M. Firth (Dion Fortune), Brian Lumley, David J. Schow, Ambrose Bierce, Francis Marion Crawford, Jan Neruda, Ray Bradbury, Jack Dann, Bram Stoker, John Keats, Steve Rasnic Tem, Frederick Cowles, Kilworth, Garry, Stephen King, H.P. Lovecraft, Algernon Blackwood, Brian Stableford, Lafcadio Hearn, Roger Zelazny, Fredric Brown, E. F. Benson, Guy de Maupassant, D. H. Lawrence, Richard Matheson, Clark Ashton Smith, Dan Simmons, Sabine Baring-Gould, Gardner R. Dozois, Hugh B. Cave, F. G. Loring, Charles Beaumont, Anne Rice, F. Paul Wilson, Dana Seitler, Gahan Wilson, Lisa Tuttle, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lord Byron, Manly Wade Wellman, Edgar Allan Poe, Peter Berresford Ellis, Robert Bloch, Montague Rhodes James, Basil Copper, Fritz Leiber, R. Chetwynd-Hayes, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Sheridan Le Fanu, Clive Barker, William Gilbert, Anne Crawford, Eliza Lynn Linton, Alecsandri, Vasile, Hume Nisbet, Eric Stenbock, Luigi Capuana, Franz Hartmann, Carl Jacobi, O. Scott-Moncrieff, Joseph Payne Brennan, Ed Gordon, Victor Roman, Alice Askew, Claude Askew, H. B. Marriott Watson, Walter Starkie, Vincent O'Sullivan, Everil Worrell, Sydney Horler, Vernon Lee

Authors: August Derleth, Mary A. Turzillo, Otto Penzler, Richard Laymon, Tanith Lee, Mary Cholmondeley, Violet M. Firth (Dion Fortune), Brian Lumley, David J. Schow, Ambrose Bierce, Francis Marion Crawford, Jan Neruda, Ray Bradbury, Jack Dann, Bram Stoker, John Keats, Steve Rasnic Tem, Frederick Cowles, Kilworth, Garry, Stephen King, H.P. Lovecraft, Algernon Blackwood, Brian Stableford, Lafcadio Hearn, Roger Zelazny, Fredric Brown, E. F. Benson, Guy de Maupassant, D. H. Lawrence, Richard Matheson, Clark Ashton Smith, Dan Simmons, Sabine Baring-Gould, Gardner R. Dozois, Hugh B. Cave, F. G. Loring, Charles Beaumont, Anne Rice, F. Paul Wilson, Dana Seitler, Gahan Wilson, Lisa Tuttle, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lord Byron, Manly Wade Wellman, Edgar Allan Poe, Peter Berresford Ellis, Robert Bloch, Montague Rhodes James, Basil Copper, Fritz Leiber, R. Chetwynd-Hayes, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Sheridan Le Fanu, Clive Barker, William Gilbert, Anne Crawford, Eliza Lynn Linton, Alecsandri, Vasile, Hume Nisbet, Eric Stenbock, Luigi Capuana, Franz Hartmann, Carl Jacobi, O. Scott-Moncrieff, Joseph Payne Brennan, Ed Gordon, Victor Roman, Alice Askew, Claude Askew, H. B. Marriott Watson, Walter Starkie, Vincent O'Sullivan, Everil Worrell, Sydney Horler, Vernon Lee
Print type: BOOK

Description:

Here are ruined castles, abbeys and crypts, spires and bats silhouetted against full moons, sharp-toothed men in full evening dress seducing beautiful, innocent young women, coffin lids being raised to reveal unspeakable residents. But the classic vampire of gothic tradition is not the only fiend to stalk the thousand pages of this vast collection. Vampires come in many guises, and all can be found within: reluctant vampires, detective vampires, space vampires, lesbian vampires, punk vampires. There are stories here by men and women from every literary era of the past century and a half, right up to the most talented writers of the present day. 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 BramStroker 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.