Vampires: Classic Tales ed. Mike Ashley (Dover, July 2011, 978-0-486-48113-5, $9.95, 246pp, tp, an, cover by Jeff A. Menges)
Anthology of 12 vampire stories, most written before Stoker’s Dracula, including a seminal fragment by Lord Byron; other authors include Nancy Holder, Brian Stableford, and Alexandre Dumas. Ashley’s introduction discusses the evolution of vampire stories in fiction.
- v · The Romance of Vampires · Mike Ashley · in
- 1 · Blood Gothic · Nancy Holder · ss Shadows 8 ed. Charles L. Grant, Doubleday, 1985
- 7 · Let the Dead Rest · Ernst Raupach · nv Popular Tales and Romances of the Northern Nations, Vol. 1, Simpkin, Marshall, 1823, as “Wake Not the Dead”, uncredited.
translated from the German (“Lasst die Todten Ruhen: Ein Mährchen”, Minerva: Taschenbuch für das Jahr 1823, Leipzig, 1822).
- 33 · The Mysterious Stranger · Karl von Wachsmann · nv Chamber’s Repository February 1854
translated fron the German (Erzählungen und Novellen, 3rd Series, Leipzig, 1844).
- 70 · The Pale Lady · Alexandre Dumas (with Paul Bocage); translated by A. R. Allinson · nv from “A Day at Fontenay-aux-Roses”, Tales of the Supernatural by Alexandre Dumas, Methuen, 1907
translated from the French (chapters 12 to 15 of Les Mille et un Fantômes, Librairie de Tarride, 1849).
- 106 · Blood Chess · Tanith Lee · ss Weird Tales Spring 2003
- 117 · The Fate of Madame Cabanel · Elizabeth Lynn Linton · ss All the Year Round December 16 1872
- 132 · A Kiss of Judas · Julian Osgood Field · nv The Pall Mall Magazine July 1893, as by X. L.
- 174 · The Crimson Weaver · R. Murray Gilchrist · ss The Yellow Book July 1895
- 182 · The Woman with the “Oily Eyes” · Dick Donovan · nv Tales of Terror by Dick Donovan, Chatto & Windus, 1899
- 215 · Emptiness · Brian Stableford · nv Dreams of Decadence #13, Winter 2000/Spring 2001
originally published in French (“Le Vide”, De Sang d’Encre ed. Lea Silhol, 1999).
- 231 · With the Vampires · Sidney Bertram · ss Phil May’s Annual #10, Winter 1899
- 241 · A Fragment · Lord Byron · uw Mazeppa by Lord Byron, John Murray, 1819
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