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Vampires: Encounters with the Undead

David J. Skal

First published 2001
Publisher Black Dog & Leventhal
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Pages 603
ISBN 1579122094

Mary Elizabeth Braddon's name is misspelled Baddon in the TOC. Gladys Hall's piece is subtitled "Bela Lugosi's True-Life Vampire Romance" in the TOC, but "Real-Life Romance" on its title page.

Page Title Author(s) Type
13 Introduction: "There Are Such Things!" David J. Skal Essay
17 from The Book of Vampires Dudley Wright Essay
23 from The Phantom World Augustin Calmet Essay
29 Tale of a Russian Vampire Helena Petrovna Blavatsky Essay
31 from Vampires of Roumania Agnes Murgoci Short Fiction
37 The Vampyre: A Tale John Polidori Novelette
53 Loving Lady Death Théophile Gautier Novelette
75 The Family of the Vourdalak Alexis Tolstoy Novelette
97 from Varney the Vampyre Or, the Feast of Blood James Malcolm Rymer Short Fiction
103 Carmilla Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu Novella
159 The Fate of Madame Cabanel Eliza Lynn Linton Short Story
171 A True Story of a Vampire Eric, Count Stenbock Short Story
179 Good Lady Ducayne Mary Elizabeth Braddon Novelette
201 Dracula's Guest Bram Stoker Short Story
211 from Dracula Bram Stoker Short Fiction
222 The Vampire Rudyard Kipling Poem
223 Fatal Image: The Artist, the Actress, and "The Vampire" David J. Skal Essay
261 Luella Miller Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Short Story
273 Count Magnus M. R. James Short Story
283 The Singular Death of Morton Algernon Blackwood Short Story
293 For the Blood Is the Life F. Marion Crawford Short Story
305 The Room in the Tower E. F. Benson Short Story
315 Vampires Albin Grau Essay
321 The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Short Story
335 Bewitched Edith Wharton Novelette
353 "When She Was Fed": Bela Lugosi's Real-Life Vampire Romance Gladys Hall Essay
357 The Dark Castle Marion Brandon Short Story
369 Revelations in Black Carl Jacobi Novelette
385 I, the Vampire Henry Kuttner Short Story
401 The Bat Is My Brother Robert Bloch Short Story
417 The Girl with the Hungry Eyes Fritz Leiber Short Story
429 from I Am Legend Richard Matheson Short Fiction
445 Unicorn Tapestry Suzy McKee Charnas Novella
495 from American Vampires Norine Dresser Essay
515 An Interview with a "Vampire" David J. Skal Essay
523 Stalking the Vampire Rosemary Ellen Guiley Essay
541 Last Call for the Sons of Shock David J. Schow Short Story
553 Coppola's Dracula Kim Newman Novella
595 Bela's Plot Caitlín R. Kiernan Short Story

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
Vampires: Encounters with the Undead Cover 2006 Black Dog & Leventhal / SFBC Trade Paperback Anthology 587