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Vampires, Wine and Roses

John Richard Stephens

First published 2008
Publisher Metro Books
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Cover art Vince Locke
Pages xiv+366
Price $9.98
ISBN 9781435108325

No dust jacket. Printed boards with embossed artwork and photo board artwork in center, front and back.
Subtitled "Chilling Tales of Immortal Pleasure". It is illustrated throughout by Vince Locke. The ss "Popsy" by Stephen King was added with this edition on page 355; the poem "The Vampire" by Baudelaire, which was in the original Berkley Books publication, was omitted with this edition, but it is still listed on the Permissions page 367. 1st edition per number line, thus: 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

Page Title Author(s) Type
1 The Master of Rampling Gate Anne Rice Novelette
19 John Barrington Cowles Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Novelette
40 Thalaba the Destroyer (excerpt) Robert Southey Poem
43 Ligeia Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
58 The Vampire Rudyard Kipling Poem
60 A Fragment of a Turkish Tale Lord Byron Poem
66 The Flowering of the Strange Orchid H. G. Wells Short Story
75 Ballad of the Sad Rat Anne Rice Poem
77 Moon Over Bourbon Street Sting Poem
79 The Homecoming Ray Bradbury Short Story
92 Rokeby (excerpt) Sir Walter Scott Poem
94 Phantoms Ivan Turgenev Novelette
120 Olalla Robert Louis Stevenson Novelette
154 The Carpathian Castle (excerpt) Jules Verne Short Fiction
161 Vampires Voltaire Essay
165 Lamia John Keats Poem
187 Count Dracula Woody Allen Short Story
192 The Vampires Won't Vampire for Me F. Scott Fitzgerald Poem
194 The Horla Guy de Maupassant Novelette
217 The Vampire of the Carpathian Mountains Alexandre Dumas Short Story
259 The Metamorphoses of a Vampire Charles Baudelaire Poem
261 The Divine Pilgrim (excerpt) Conrad Aiken Poem
270 The Death of King Arthur (excerpt) Sir Thomas Malory Short Fiction
274 The Vampirine Fair Thomas Hardy Poem
279 The Riddle of the Crypt Rod Serling Short Story
299 The Bride of Corinth Goethe Poem
307 Bewitched Edith Wharton Novelette
327 (untitled) Lenny Bruce Short Fiction
331 The Hound H. P. Lovecraft Short Story
339 The Wasteland (excerpt) T. S. Eliot Poem
340 The Giaour (excerpt) Lord Byron Poem
342 Dracula's Guest Bram Stoker Short Story
355 Popsy Stephen King Short Story
x Introduction: Under the Influence of Vampires John Richard Stephens Essay