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The Curse of the Undead - Selected Vampire Books and Legends - cover

The Curse of the Undead - Selected Vampire Books and Legends

Henry Kuttner, Bram Stoker, John William Polidori, Richard Francis Burton, Jan Neruda, Thomas Peckett Prest, James Malcolm Rymer, Théophile Gautier, Alice Askew, Claude Askew, Hume Nisbet, E.F. Benson, Dudley Wright, George Sylvester Viereck, Earl Peirce, Lloyd Arthur Eshbach, Victor Rowan, Victoria Glad

Translator Lafcadio Hearn

Publisher: e-artnow

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Summary

The Vampires prowl through the dark nights - hunting and baying for blood. And when they smell the human flesh nothing can stop them from transforming into mysterious, menacing and frightening creatures. Reawaken the fear, the dread and the obsession with the creatures of the night through the stories of the gruesome hunt and the hunted with this meticulously edited collection of the greatest vampire classics of all time:
The Vampyre (John William Polidori)
Dracula (Bram Stoker)
Dracula's Guest (Bram Stoker)
Clarimonde (Théophile Gautier)
Carmilla (Sheridan Le Fanu)
Vikram and the Vampire (Sir Richard Francis Burton)
The Vampire (Jan Neruda) 
Varney the Vampire, or, the Feast of Blood (Thomas PeckettPrest and James Malcolm Rymer)
The Vampire of Croglin Grange (Augustus Hare)
Aylmer Vance and the Vampire (Alice and Claude Askew)
The Vampire Maid (Hume Nisbet) 
The Room in the Tower (E. F. Benson)
Mrs.Amworth (E. F. Benson)
Vampires and Vampirism (Dudley Wright)
I, the Vampire (Henry Kuttner)
The House of the Vampire (George Sylvester Viereck)
Vampires of Venus (Anthony Pelcher)
Doom of the House of Duryea (Earl Peirce)
Isle of the Undead (Lloyd Arthur Eshbach)
Four Wooden Stakes (Victor Rowan) 
Each Man Kills (Victoria Glad)
Available since: 10/15/2020.
Print length: 2804 pages.

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