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4.0 out of 5 stars
Not Free SF Reader, October 9, 2007
Haining has put together a collection tracing the roots of the vampire story, including some archival recovery of some work that has turned out to be quite interesting.
His introductions to the pieces are quite useful and informative.
The second part of the book traces the vampire through film, and has more in the way of excerpt pieces than stories.
The third then goes back to some short stories by some more 'modern' writers in general, and their takes on some various vampire types.
A solid book for those interested in vampire fiction, or vampires in general.
Vampire Omnibus : 'The Destruction of Castle Dracula!' - Bram Stoker
Vampire Omnibus : The Skeleton Count or The Vampire Mistress - Elizabeth Grey
Vampire Omnibus : The Vampyre's Story - James Malcolm Rymer
Vampire Omnibus : The Pale Lady - Alexandre Dumas and Paul Bocage
Vampire Omnibus : The Grave of Ethelind Fionguala - Julian Hawthorne
Vampire Omnibus : Let Loose - Mary Cholmondeley
Vampire Omnibus : A True Story of a Vampire - Count Eric Stenbock
Vampire Omnibus : Grettir at Thorhall-Stead - Frank Norris
Vampire Omnibus : The Blood Fetish - Morley Roberts
Vampire Omnibus : The Land of the Time-Leeches - Gustav Meyrink
Vampire Omnibus : The Elder Brother - Charles Caldwell Dobie
Vampire Omnibus : I the Vampire - Henry Kuttner
Vampire Omnibus : The Bride of the Isles - Lord Byron
Vampire Omnibus : Les Vampires - Eugene Sue
Vampire Omnibus : Nosferatu - Paul Monette
Vampire Omnibus : The Bat - Bela Lugosi
Vampire Omnibus : Son of Dracula - Peter Tremayne
Vampire Omnibus : The Cat People [The Bagheeta] - Val Lewton
Vampire Omnibus : Dracula - Prince of Darkness - Jimmy Sangster
Vampire Omnibus : Incense for the Damned - Simon Raven
Vampire Omnibus : Dark Shadows - Marilyn Ross
Vampire Omnibus : Return to 'Salem's Lot [One for the Road] - Stephen King
Vampire Omnibus : Interview with the Vampire [SS] [Vampire Chronicles] - Anne Rice
Vampire Omnibus : Uncle Vlad - Clive Sinclair
Vampire Omnibus : Sanguinarius - Ray Russell
Vampire Omnibus : Count Dracula - Woody Allen
Vampire Omnibus : West of October - Ray Bradbury
Vampire Omnibus : First Anniversary - Richard Matheson
Vampire Omnibus : So Near the Darkness - Theodore Sturgeon
Vampire Omnibus : Dayblood - Roger Zelazny
Vampire Omnibus : Vampirella - Ron Goulart
Vampire Omnibus : Getting Dead - William F. Nolan
Vampire Omnibus : Reader I Buried Him - Basil Copper
Vampire Omnibus : The Bleeder - Richard Laymon
Vampire Omnibus : Dracula The Real Story - Jack Sharkey
A small part that was apparently taken out of the original version of Dracula (along with the chapter known as the story Dracula's Guest', which makes it less ambiguous as to what happened to the aforementioned architecture des vampire.
4 out of 5
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