The Vampire Archives
by Otto Penzler, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, William Gilbert, Anne Crawford, Eliza Lynn Linton, Mary Cholmondeley, Alecsandri, Vasile, Ambrose Bierce, Sheridan Le Fanu, F. G. Loring, Edgar Allan Poe, Hume Nisbet, Eric Stenbock, Luigi Capuana, Franz Hartmann, Carl Jacobi, Anne Rice, Frederick Cowles, Montague Rhodes James, O. Scott-Moncrieff, H.P. Lovecraft, Tanith Lee, Joseph Payne Brennan, Algernon Blackwood, Clark Ashton Smith, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Lord Byron, John Keats, Charles Beaumont, Ed Gordon, David J. Schow, Victor Roman, E. F. Benson, Basil Copper, Francis Marion Crawford, Manly Wade Wellman, August Derleth, Alice Askew, Claude Askew, Bram Stoker, H. B. Marriott Watson, Jan Neruda, D. H. Lawrence, Fredric Brown, Stephen King, R. Chetwynd-Hayes, Richard Matheson, Roger Zelazny, Lisa Tuttle, Kilworth, Garry, Walter Starkie, Vincent O'Sullivan, Violet M. Firth (Dion Fortune), Everil Worrell, Mary A. Turzillo, Lafcadio Hearn, Steve Rasnic Tem, Brian Stableford, F. Paul Wilson, Sabine Baring-Gould, Clive Barker, Sydney Horler, Hugh B. Cave, Vernon Lee, Guy de Maupassant, Fritz Leiber, Robert Bloch, Gardner R. Dozois, Jack Dann, Brian Lumley, Ray Bradbury, Peter Berresford Ellis, Richard Laymon, Dan Simmons, Gahan Wilson, Dana Seitler
Here are ruined castles, abbeys and crypts, spires and bats silhouetted against full moons, sharp-toothed men in full evening dress seducing beautiful, innocent young women, coffin lids being raised to reveal unspeakable residents. But the classic vampire of gothic tradition is not the only fiend to stalk the thousand pages of this vast collection. Vampires come in many guises, and all can be found within: reluctant vampires, detective vampires, space vampires, lesbian vampires, punk vampires. There are stories here by men and women from every literary era of the past century and a half, right up to the most talented writers of the present day. 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 BramStroker or Anne Rice, they are part of the human lexicon and as old as blood itself. They are your neighbors, 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.