The Vampire Archives
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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.
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Violet M. Firth (Dion Fortune)
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Mary A. Turzillo
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Lisa Tuttle
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Sabine Baring-Gould
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Lord Byron
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Walter Starkie
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Ed Gordon
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Franz Hartmann
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Sydney Horler
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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H. B. Marriott Watson
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Otto Penzler
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John Keats
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Anne Crawford
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Robert Bloch
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Vernon Lee
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Richard Matheson
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D. H. Lawrence
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Stephen King
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Ambrose Bierce
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Mary Cholmondeley
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Francis Marion Crawford
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Jack Dann
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H.P. Lovecraft
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Fredric Brown
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Gahan Wilson
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Dan Simmons
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Gardner R. Dozois
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Tanith Lee
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Brian Lumley
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Alice Askew
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Ray Bradbury
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August Derleth
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Hume Nisbet
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Clive Barker
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Brian Stableford
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William Gilbert
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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Charles Beaumont
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Steve Rasnic Tem
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Guy de Maupassant
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Fritz Leiber
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Claude Askew
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Bram Stoker
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Kilworth, Garry
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Basil Copper
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F. Paul Wilson
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Frederick Cowles
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Peter Berresford Ellis
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Algernon Blackwood
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Anne Rice
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R. Chetwynd-Hayes
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Luigi Capuana
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Joseph Payne Brennan
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Carl Jacobi
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Sheridan Le Fanu
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Manly Wade Wellman
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Hugh B. Cave
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Roger Zelazny
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E. F. Benson
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Dana Seitler
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Montague Rhodes James
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Lafcadio Hearn
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Vincent O'Sullivan
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Jan Neruda
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Richard Laymon
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Eliza Lynn Linton
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Victor Roman
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David J. Schow
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F. G. Loring
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Everil Worrell
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Alecsandri, Vasile
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Eric Stenbock
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O. Scott-Moncrieff
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Clark Ashton Smith
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