Vampyres: Lord Byron to Count Dracula ed. Christopher Frayling (Faber and Faber, November 1991, 0-571-16311-4, £17.50, 429pp, hc, an, cover by Max Ernst)
Anthology of fictional and non-fictional vampire pieces from 1702 to the publication of Dracula in 1897, together with a long essay on the genre by the editor. A considerably shorter version was published by Gollancz in 1978 as The Vampyre.
- 1 · Lord Byron to Count Dracula · Christopher Frayling · ar
- 87 · A Voyage to the Levant · Joseph Pitton de Tournefort · ex 1702
- 92 · Treatise on the Vampires of Hungary and Surrounding Regions · Dom Augustin Calmet · ex 1746
- 107 · The Vampyre · John Polidori · nv The New Monthly Magazine April 1 1819, as by Lord Byron
- 126 · Fragment of a Story · Lord Byron · uw Mazeppa by Lord Byron, John Murray, 1819
- 131 · A Visit to the Theatre [from Memoirs] · Alexandre Dumas · ex (r)
- 145 · Varney, the Vampyre · James Malcolm Rymer · ex from Varney the Vampire; or, The Feast of Blood, anonymously, E. Lloyd, 1847, uncredited.
- 165 · Wake Not the Dead · Johann Ludwig Tieck (error, actually by Ernst Raupach) · nv Popular Tales and Romances of the Northern Nations, Vol. 1, Simpkin, Marshall, 1823, uncredited.
translated from the German (“Lasst die Todten Ruhen: Ein Mährchen”, Minerva: Taschenbuch für das Jahr 1823, Leipzig, 1822).
- 190 · Aurelia · E. T. A. Hoffmann · ss The Serapion Brethren, Volume II by E. T. A. Hoffmann, George Bell and Sons, 1892, as “[untitled]”
translated from the German (“Vampirismus”, 1821).
- 208 · What Was It? [Harry Escott] · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine March 1859, uncredited.
- 221 · A Kiss of Judas · X. L. · nv The Pall Mall Magazine July 1893
- 253 · The Family of the Vourdalak · Alexis Tolstoy; translated by Christopher Frayling · nv The Vampyre: Lord Ruthven to Count Dracula ed. Christopher Frayling, Gollancz, 1978
translated from the Russian (Russian Gazette #1, 1884).
- 280 · The Fate of Madame Cabanel · Eliza Lynn Linton · ss All the Year Round December 16 1872
- 297 · The Genesis of Dracula · Christopher Frayling · si
- 303 · Working Papers for Dracula · Bram Stoker · ms
- 317 · Research Papers for Dracula · Bram Stoker · ms
- 351 · Dracula’s Guest [Dracula] · Bram Stoker · ss Dracula’s Guest by Bram Stoker, Routledge, 1914
written in 1897 as part of Dracula, this chapter was omitted from the published book for reasons of length.
- 364 · Dracula [Dracula] · Bram Stoker · ex Constable, 1897
- 387 · Haemosexuality · Christopher Frayling · si
- 390 · Psychopathia Sexualis · Richard von Krafft-Ebing · ex 1886
- 398 · On the Vampire · Ernest Jones · ex from On the Nightmare, The Hogarth Press, 1931
- 418 · The Psychoanalysis of Count Dracula · Maurice Richardson · ex The Twentieth Century December 1959
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