The Mammoth Book of Vampires

Edited by Stephen Jones. Illustrated by Martin McKenna.

The masters of the macabre bring the dead to life in this gruesome collection of gory stories you can sink your teeth into. A wide and varied collection of the very best vampire fiction, from tales of tempting sirens to contemporary serial killers; from haunting doppelgängers to nefarious historical figures; from Nosferatu to the shady realms of the King of the Undead himself, Dracula! Within these dark and deadly pages you'll discover short novels and stories by Clive Barker, Robert Bloch, Ramsey Campbell, R. Chetwynd-Hayes, Basil Copper, Dennis Etchison, Nancy Holder, Brian Lumley, Peter Tremayne and Howard Waldrop. And you will find short novels such as Hugh B. Cave's Stragella; Manly Wade Wellman's Chastel, which continues the adventures of psychic investigator Judge Keith Hilary Pursuivant; F. Paul Wilson's Midnight Mass; Les Daniel's Yellow Fog, featuring his undead her Don Sebastian of Villanueva, and the first publication ever of Kim Newman's Red Reign, as well as classic vampire fiction by M.R. James, Edgar Allan Poe and the greatest of them all, Bram Stoker. Never collected together before, these stories blend horror and humour, terror and tenderness, into one large volume celebrating the vampire in all its frightening forms.

Contents:

• INTRODUCTION: THE CHILDREN OF THE NIGHT by Stephen Jones
• HUMAN REMAINS by Clive Barker
• NECROS by Brian Lumley
• THE MAN WHO LOVED THE VAMPIRE LADY by Brian Stableford
• FOR THE BLOOD IS THE LIFE by F. Marion Crawford
• THE BROOD by Ramsey Campbell
• HUNGARIAN RHAPSODY by Robert Bloch
• LEGEIA by Edgar Allan Poe
• VAMPIRE by Richard Christian Matheson
• STRAGELLA by Hugh B. Cave
• A WEEK IN THE UNLIFE by David J. Schow
• THE HOUSE AT EVENING by Frances Garfield
• THE LABYRINTH by R. Chetwynd-Hayes
• BEYOND ANY MEASURE by Karl Edward Wagner
• DOCTOR PORTHOS by Basil Copper
• DRACULA'S GUEST by Bram Stoker
• IT ONLY COMES OUT AT NIGHT by Dennis Etchison
• DRACULA'S CHAIR by Peter Tremayne
• THE BETTER HALF by Melanie Tem
• AN EPISODE OF CATHEDRAL HISTORY by M.R. James
• CHASTEL by Manly Wade Wellman
• DER UNTERGANG DES ABENDLANDESMENSCHEN by Howard Waldrop
• THE ROOM IN THE TOWER by E.F. Benson
• LAIRD OF DUNAIN by Graham Masterton
• MIDNIGHT MASS by F. Paul Wilson
• BLOOD GOTHIC by Nancy Holder
• YELLOW FOG by Les Daniels
• VINTAGE DOMESTIC by Steve Rasnic Tem
• RED REIGN by Kim Newman
• VAMPIRE SESTINA by Neil Gaiman