The Vampire Archives

The Vampire Archives is the biggest, hungriest, undeadliest collection of vampire stories, as well as the most comprehensive bibliography of vampire fiction ever assembled. Dark, stormy, and delicious, once it sinks its teeth into you there’s no escape.

Vampires! Whether imagined by Bram Stoker or Anne Rice, they are part of the human lexicon and as old as blood itself. They are your neighbours, your friends, and they are always lurking. Now Otto Penzler, editor of the bestselling Black Lizard "Big Book of Pulps", has compiled the darkest, the scariest, and by far the most evil collection of vampire stories ever. With over eighty stories, including the works of Stephen King and D. H. Lawrence, alongside Lord Byron and Tanith Lee, not to mention Edgar Allan Poe and Harlan Ellison, The Vampire Archives will drive a stake through the heart of any other collection out there.

Contents

Foreword by Kim Newman
Preface by Neil Gaiman
Introduction: They Will Have Blood by Otto Penzler

1. Good Lady Ducayne by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
2. The Last Lords of Gardonal [The Innominato] (1867) by William Gilbert
3. A Mystery of the Campagna (1987) by Von Degen [as by Anne Crawford]
4. The Fate of Madame Cabanel (1873) by Eliza Lynn Linton
5. Let Loose (1890) by Mary Cholmondeley
6. The Vampire poem by Vasile Alecsandrai
7. The Death of Halpin Frayser (1891) by Ambrose Bierce
8. Ken's Mystery (1883) by Julian Hawthorne
9. Carmilla [Martin Hesselius] (1937) by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
10. The Tomb of Sarah (1900) by F. G. Loring
11. Ligeia (1838) by Edgar Allan Poe
12. Hume Nisbet (The Vampire Archives) essay by Otto Penzler
13. The Old Portrait (1890) by Hume Nisbet
14. The Vampire Maid (1890) by Hume Nisbet
15. The Sad Story of a Vampire by Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock
16. A Case of Alleged Vampirism by Luigi Capuana
17. An Authenticated Vampire Story (1909) by Franz Hartmann
18. Revelations in Black (1933) by Carl Jacobi
19. The Master of Rampling Gate (1984) by Anne Rice
20. The Vampire of Kaldenstein (1938) by Frederick Cowles
21. An Episode of Cathedral History (1914) by M. R. James
22. Schloss Wappenburg (1948) by D. Scott-Moncrieff
23. The Hound (1924) by H. P. Lovecraft
24. Bite-Me-Not or, Fleur de Fur (1986) by Tanith Lee
25. The Horror at Chilton Castle (1963) by Joseph Payne Brennan
26. The Singular Death of Morton (1910) by Algernon Blackwood
27. The Death of Ilalotha (1937) by Clark Ashton Smith
28. The Bride of Corinth (2005) poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
29. The Giaour (excerpt) (1813) poem by Lord George Gordon Byron [as by Lord Byron]
30. La Belle Dame Sans Merci (1820) poem by John Keats
31. Place of Meeting (1953) by Charles Beaumont
32. Duty (1991) by Ed Gorman
33. A Week in the Unlife (1991) by David J. Schow
34. Four Wooden Stakes (1925) by Victor Rowan
35. The Room in the Tower (1912) by E. F. Benson
36. Mrs. Amworth (1922) by E. F. Benson
37. Doctor Porthos (1968) by Basil Copper
38. For the Blood Is the Life (1905) by F. Marion Crawford
39. Count Magnus (1904) by M. R. James
40. When It Was Moonlight (1940) by Manly Wade Wellman
41. The Drifting Snow (1939) by August Derleth
42. Aylmer Vance and the Vampire (1914) by Alice Askew and Claude Askew
43. Dracula's Guest (1914) by Bram Stoker
44. The Transfer (1911) by Algernon Blackwood
45. The Stone Chamber (1898) by H. B. Marriott Watson
46. The Vampire (1920) by Jan Neruda
47. The End of the Story (1930) by Clark Ashton Smith
48. The Lovely Lady (1927) by D. H. Lawrence
49. The Parasite (1894) novella by Arthur Conan Doyle
50. Lonely Women Are the Vessels of Time (1976) by Harlan Ellison
51. Blood (1955) by Fredric Brown
52. Popsy (1987) by Stephen King
53. The Werewolf and the Vampire (1975) by R. Chetwynd-Hayes
54. Drink My Red Blood (1974) by Richard Matheson
55. Dayblood (1985) by Roger Zelazny
56. Replacements (1992) by Lisa Tuttle
57. Princess of Darkness (1940) by Frederick Cowles
58. The Silver Collar (1989) by Garry Kilworth
59. The Old Man's Story (1933) by Walter Starkie
60. Will (1899) by Vincent O'Sullivan
61. Blood-Lust [Dr. Taverner 1] (1922) by Dion Fortune
62. The Canal (1927) by Everil Worrell
63. When Gretchen Was Human (2001) by Mary A. Turzillo
64. The Story of Chugoro (1902) by Lafcadio Hearn
65. The Men & Women of Rivendale (1984) by Steve Rasnic Tem
66. Winter Flowers (1993) by Tanith Lee
67. The Man Who Loved the Vampire Lady (1988) by Brian Stableford
68. Midnight Mass (1990) novella by F. Paul Wilson
69. The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire (1924) by Arthur Conan Doyle
70. A Dead Finger (1904) by Sabine Baring-Gould
71. Wailing Well (1928) by M. R. James
72. Human Remains (1984) by Clive Barker
73. The Vampire (1930) by Sydney Horler
74. Stragella (1932) by Hugh B. Cave
75. Marsyas in Flanders (1900) by Vernon Lee
76. The Horla [Le Horla 3] (1910) by Guy de Maupassant (trans. of Le Horla 1887)
77. The Girl with the Hungry Eyes (1949) by Fritz Leiber
78. The Living Dead (1967) by Robert Bloch (variant of Underground)
79. Down Among the Dead Men (1982) by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois
80. Necros (1986) by Brian Lumley
81. The Man Upstairs (1947) by Ray Bradbury
82. Chastel (1979) by Manly Wade Wellman
83. Dracula's Chair (1980) by Peter Tremayne
84. Special (1991) by Richard Laymon
85. Carrion Comfort (1983) by Dan Simmons
86. The Sea Was Wet as Wet Could Be (1967) by Gahan Wilson

Biography by Daniel Settler