The Ultimate Dracula: New Stories by Some of the World's Leading Authors (Paperback)

by Byron Preiss (Editor), Anne Rice (Author), Dan Simmons (Author)

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Product Description
Features original works by Anne Rice, Dan Simmons, Ed Gorman, and others.

About the Author
Byron Preiss is the author of Dragonworld and The White House Mouse. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 358 pages
• Publisher: Dell (September 1, 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0440503531
• ISBN-13: 978-0440503538
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,004,374 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An Interesting Look Into the Vampire Mystique, April 7, 1999

By A Customer

When I first picked up the Ultimate Dracula, I wasn't sure what it was. I thought another collection on Dracula himself, but I was wrong. Anne Rice's "Master of the Rampling Gate" is a wonderful short story of hers. My other favorite is "The Tenth Scholar", a totally different look at the world of the vampire. If you're looking for some good short fiction, pick up this book. It won't disappoint you.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Too many vampires aren't that scary, June 29, 1998

By A Customer

These are supposed to be some of the best Vampire stories around. However, I didn't find the quality of these stories to be as good as the stories in The Ultimate Zombie. I enjoyed them and found most to be very solid and entertaining stories. Maybe it is just because of the major flux of vampire stories and novels and movies that I'm just a little tired of them, especially when they don't vary widely from the standard vampire storyline. Try something different, make the story really stand out, that's what I was hoping for more of. At least the stories below gave me that difference.

"A Matter of Style" by Ron Dee - Dracula must take other forms in order to find food.

"Selection Process" by Ed Gorman - A hitman gets a strange job.

"Dracula 1944" by Edward D. Hoch - Dracula plays a part of World War II.

"Contagion" by Janet Asimov - Dracula enters a Sci-Fi world out of an Isaac Asimov novel.

"Sugar and Spice and ..." by Karen Robards - A brother suspects his baby sister is a vampire.

3.0 out of 5 stars Not Free SF Reader, August 3, 2007

By	Blue Tyson "- http://freesf.blogspot.com" - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Ultimate Dracula (Mass Market Paperback)

A pretty mediocre collection of stories. A few are of the amusing variety.



Ultimate Dracula : The Master of Rampling Gate - Anne Rice
Ultimate Dracula : All Dracula's Children - Dan Simmons
Ultimate Dracula : A Matter of Style - Ron Dee
Ultimate Dracula : Selection Process - Ed Gorman
Ultimate Dracula : The Vampire in His Closet - Heather Graham
Ultimate Dracula : The Tenth Scholar - Steve Rasnic and Melanie Tem
Ultimate Dracula : Nobody's Perfect - Philip José Farmer
Ultimate Dracula : Dracula 1944 - Edward D. Hoch
Ultimate Dracula : The Contagion - Janet Asimov
Ultimate Dracula : Sugar and Spice and... - Karen Robards
Ultimate Dracula : Vampire Dreams - Dick Lochte
Ultimate Dracula : Much at Stake - Kevin J. Anderson
Ultimate Dracula : The Name of Fear - Lawrence Watt-Evans
Ultimate Dracula : The Dark Rising - W. R. Philbrick
Ultimate Dracula : Los Ninos de la Noche - Tim Sullivan
Ultimate Dracula : A Little Night Music - Mike Resnick
Ultimate Dracula : Mr. Lucrada - John Lutz
Ultimate Dracula : In the Cusp of the Hour - John Gregory Betancourt
Ultimate Dracula : Children of the Night - Kristine Kathryn Rusch


Burning down the house as dead dad suggested a better move.

2.5 out of 5


Ceausescu Romanians not quick on the AIDS uptake, not even Vlad Tepes.

3.5 out of 5


Dracula finds being a hot chick useful for hunting.

3.5 out of 5


Flaming assasin recruitment test.

3 out of 5


Writer wakes vampire, gets to swap blonde for brunette.

3 out of 5


Drac only wants the kid for class, after the shagging.

3.5 out of 5


Escort hired by fundies as vampire assassin.

3.5 out of 5


The guards at much tastier at Bergen-Belson for Drac than the prisoners.

3.5 out of 5


Positronic shrink revives Drac in the future in the interests of telepathic robot research.

3 out of 5


Midget female vampire relatives are bad.

3 out of 5


Undead actor gets fed up with Hollywood types, goes over the edge with one.

3.5 out of 5


Lugosi and Tepes, temporal communication.

3.5 out of 5


Sneaking vamp thinks Vlad a good candidate for the ranks, after impressive death displays.

3 out of 5


In Haiti, vampire lord just full of disease, but isn't dead.

3 out of 5


Latino lore.

2.5 out of 5


Band booker signs Vlad and the Impalers.

3 out of 5


Sunscreen useful for old vamps.

2.5 out of 5


Overload of old people stuff.

2.5 out of 5


Vampire killers and little kids.

3 out of 5