Vampires ed. Alan Ryan (SFBC, April 1987, #10445, $6.98, 621pp, hc, an)
Anthology of two centuries of vampire stories, with 32 stories in all plus a recommended list of vampire novels and films. A regular trade edition has been announced, but is predated by the Book Club one.
- xiii · Introduction · Alan Ryan · in
- 1 · A Fragment of a Novel · George Gordon, Lord Byron · uw Mazeppa by Lord Byron, John Murray, 1819
- 7 · The Vampyre · Dr. John William Polidori · nv The New Monthly Magazine April 1 1819, as by Lord Byron
- 25 · Varney, the Vampyre; or, The Feast of Blood · James Malcolm Rymer · ex E. Lloyd, 1847, uncredited.
- 36 · The Mysterious Stranger · [uncredited] · nv Odds and Ends 1860
- 71 · Carmilla [Martin Hesselius] · Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu · na The Dark Blue December 1871 (+3)
- 138 · Good Lady Ducayne · Mary Elizabeth Braddon · nv The Strand Magazine February 1896
- 163 · 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.
- 175 · Luella Miller · Mary E. Wilkins Freeman · ss Everybody’s Magazine December 1902, as by Mary E. Wilkins
- 188 · For the Blood Is the Life · F. Marion Crawford · ss Collier’s December 16 1905
- 203 · The Transfer · Algernon Blackwood · ss Country Life December 9 1911
- 213 · The Room in the Tower · E. F. Benson · ss The Pall Mall Magazine January 1912
- 225 · An Episode of Cathedral History · M. R. James · ss The Cambridge Review June 10 1914
- 241 · A Rendezvous in Averoigne [Averoigne] · Clark Ashton Smith · ss Weird Tales April/May 1931
- 255 · Shambleau [Northwest Smith] · C. L. Moore · nv Weird Tales November 1933
- 282 · Revelations in Black · Carl Jacobi · nv Weird Tales April 1933
- 301 · School for the Unspeakable · Manly Wade Wellman · ss Weird Tales September 1937
- 311 · The Drifting Snow · August Derleth · ss Weird Tales February 1939
- 322 · Over the River · P. Schuyler Miller · ss Unknown April 1941
- 334 · The Girl with the Hungry Eyes · Fritz Leiber · ss The Girl with the Hungry Eyes, Avon, 1949
- 349 · The Mindworm · C. M. Kornbluth · ss Worlds Beyond December 1950
- 362 · Drink My Blood · Richard Matheson · ss Imagination April 1951, as ““Drink My Red Blood…””
- 371 · Place of Meeting · Charles Beaumont · ss Orbit v1 #2, 1953
- 376 · The Living Dead · Robert Bloch · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine April 1967
- 382 · Pages from a Young Girl’s Journal · Robert Aickman · nv The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction February 1973
- 415 · The Werewolf and the Vampire · R. Chetwynd-Hayes · nv The Monster Club by R. Chetwynd-Hayes, NEL, 1976
- 441 · Love-Starved · Charles L. Grant · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction August 1979
- 451 · Cabin 33 [Comte de Saint Germain] · Chelsea Quinn Yarbro · na Shadows 3 ed. Charles L. Grant, Doubleday, 1980
- 505 · Unicorn Tapestry · Suzy McKee Charnas · na New Dimensions 11 ed. Robert Silverberg & Marta Randall, Pocket, 1980
- 562 · Following the Way · Alan Ryan · ss Shadows 5 ed. Charles L. Grant, Doubleday, 1982
- 574 · The Sunshine Club · Ramsey Campbell · ss The Dodd, Mead Gallery of Horror ed. Charles L. Grant, Dodd, Mead, 1983
- 579 · The Men and Women of Rivendale · Steve Rasnic Tem · ss Night Visions 1 ed. Alan Ryan, Dark Harvest, 1984
- 588 · Bite-Me-Not or, Fleur de Feu · Tanith Lee · nv Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine October 1984
- 613 · Appendix I: Vampire Novels · [uncredited] · bi
- 618 · Appendix II: Vampire Movies · [uncredited] · bi
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