Vampires: Two Centuries of Great Vampire Stories [Hardcover]

Alan Ryan (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 19, 1987

short stories about vampires

Product Details

• Hardcover: 621 pages
• Publisher: Doubleday (May 19, 1987)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0385185626
• ISBN-13: 978-0385185622
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.7 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,416,093 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Some of the Greatest!, April 29, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Vampires: Two Centuries of Great Vampire Stories (Hardcover)

This book contains some of the greatest vampire short stories of all time. Stories by John Polidori, Bram Stoker F. Marion Crawford,M. R. James, and R. Chetwynd-Hayes. Includes an except from Varney the Vampire, Carmilla, the Mysterious Stanger, the Room in the Tower, Revelations in Black, and the Girl with the Hungry Eyes. If you're a horror reader, a fang fanatic, or just apreciate great stories, read this book!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars As the cover says, Two Centuries of Great Vampire Stories, September 23, 2000

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AmazingMrKimble "amazingmrkimble" (Rio Rancho, New Mexico, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Vampires: Two Centuries of Great Vampire Stories (Hardcover)

This collection edited by Alan Ryan is as good a collection of vampire stories as you are going to find. The book begins with a the story fragment by Lord Byron on which John Polidori based 1819 story "The Vampyre" and ends with contemporary works by Tanith Lee and Chelsea Quinn Yarbo. In between you will find works by Bram Stoker, Algernon Blackwood, Clark Ashton Smith, August Derleth, Fritz Leiber, Richard Matheson, Charles Beaumont, Robert Block and Chelse Quinn Yabro. There is even an excerpt from the infamous "Varney the Vampyre, or, the Feast of Blood." Consequently, while there is not a lot of depth, the breadth of vampire literature is more than adequately covered.