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Vampyres: Lord Byron to Count Dracula

Christopher Frayling

First published 1991
Publisher Faber and Faber
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Cover art Max Ernst
Pages 429
Price £17.50
ISBN 0571163114

  • Anthology of fictional and non-fictional vampire pieces from 1702 to the publication of Dracula in 1897, together with a long essay on the genre by the editor.
  • Revised and expanded edition of 'The Vampyre: Lord Ruthven to Count Dracula' 1978.
  • Bibliography on p. 424-429
  • OCLC/WorldCat lists 12 records of this printing.

Page Title Author(s) Type
3 Introduction (The Vampyre: Lord Ruthven to Count Dracula) Christopher Frayling Essay
87 A Voyage to the Levant (excerpt) Joseph Pitton de Tournefort Short Fiction
92 The Vampires of Hungry and Surrounding Regions Augustin Calmet Essay
105 The Vampyre John Stagg Poem
107 The Vampyre Dr. John William Polidori Novelette
126 Fragment of a Story Lord George Gordon Byron Short Story
131 A Visit to the Theatre (excerpt) Alexandre Dumas Short Fiction
145 Varney the Vampire (excerpt) James Malcolm Rymer Short Fiction
165 Wake Not the Dead Johann Ludwig Tieck (in error) Novelette
190 Aurelia E. T. A. Hoffmann Short Story
208 What Was It? Fitz-James O'Brien Short Story
221 A Kiss of Judas X. L. Novelette
253 The Family of the Vourdalak Alexis Tolstoy Novelette
280 The Fate of Madame Cabanel Elizabeth Lynn Linton Short Story
297 The Genesis of Dracula Christopher Frayling Essay
303 The Working Papers for Dracula Bram Stoker & Christopher Frayling Essay
317 Account of the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia (excerpt) William Wilkinson Short Fiction
317 The Bram Stoker's Research Papers for Dracula Christopher Frayling Essay
319 Transylvanian Superstitions Emily de Laszowska Gerard Essay
327 The Land Beyond the Forest (excerpt) Charles Boner Short Fiction
331 Round About the Carpathians (excerpt) Andrew F. Crosse Short Fiction
335 On the Track of the Crescent (excerpt) Major E. C. Johnson Short Fiction
342 Book of Were-Wolves (excerpt) S. Baring-Gould Short Fiction
351 Dracula's Guest Bram Stoker Short Story
364 Dracula (excerpt) Bram Stoker Short Fiction
390 Psychopathis Sexualis (excerpt) Richard von Krafft-Ebing Essay
398 On the Vampire (excerpt) Ernest Jones Short Fiction
424 Bibliography (The Vampyre: Lord Ruthven to Count Dracula) uncredited Essay

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
Vampyres: Lord Byron to Count Dracula Cover 1992 Faber and Faber Trade Paperback Anthology Helena Zakrzewska-Rucinska 429