The Vampire Archives

I found a new vampire anthology at the Undead Rat and damn is this going to be a great collection. It’s called The Vampire Archives and it’s edited by Otto Penzler.

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.

Normally, I wouldn’t post an entire table of contents for an anthology, but you have to see some of the names in this compilations. There’s Edgar Allen Poe, Clive Barker, Arthur Conan Doyle, Bram Stoker, Lord Byron, John Keats, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – I’m mean we’re talking some heavy hitters here.  This is going to be a novel that any vampire nut will want to have.  Seriously, this will be the ultimate collection of vampire literature and a simple must-have for anyone’s library.  I’m hitting the bookstore tomorrow.  It has Edgar Allen Poe!

Table of Contents:
Foreword by Kim Newman
Preface by Neil Gaiman
Introduction: They Will Have Blood by Otto Penzler

• 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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