Vampire Stories: Blood-Curdling Tales of Horror

by Edgar Allan Poe, Algernon Blackwood

This thrilling anthology of vampire stories features works from some of literature's greatest writers, presented in a stunning hardback edition with sprayed page edges

From Edgar Allan Poe and Algernon Blackwood to F. G. Loring and M. R. James, the tales within celebrate the earie and supernatural Including mysterious shadows, haunted rooms and bloodthirsty creatures, this is the ultimate companion for any lover of creepy characters and frightful foes


• Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker
• Ligeia by Edgar Allan Poe
• Count Magnus by M R James
• The Transfer by Algernon Blackwood
• The Tomb of Sarah by F G Loring
• Negotium Perambulans by E F Benson

Part of the Arcturus Gilded Classics series, this beautiful anthology features silver gilded page edges, foil cover embossing, ivory pages and patterned page edges, making a delightful gift.

ABOUT THE The Arcturus Gilded Classics series presents luxury gift editions of classics works, printed on opulent ivory paper, featuring hardcover Wibilin binding, foil-embossed cover designs, beautifully designed end-papers and striking page edges. These make perfect collectibles for lovers of classic literature.

Genres: Horror

302 pages, Hardcover

Published September 30, 2025

About the author

The name Poe brings to mind images of murderers and madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women who return from the dead. His works have been in print since 1827 and include such literary classics as The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, and The Fall of the House of Usher. This versatile writer’s oeuvre includes short stories, poetry, a novel, a textbook, a book of scientific theory, and hundreds of essays and book reviews. He is widely acknowledged as the inventor of the modern detective story and an innovator in the science fiction genre, but he made his living as America’s first great literary critic and theoretician. Poe’s reputation today rests primarily on his tales of terror as well as on his haunting lyric poetry.

Just as the bizarre characters in Poe’s stories have captured the public imagination so too has Poe himself. He is seen as a morbid, mysterious figure lurking in the shadows of moonlit cemeteries or crumbling castles. This is the Poe of legend. But much of what we know about Poe is wrong, the product of a biography written by one of his enemies in an attempt to defame the author’s name.

The real Poe was born to traveling actors in Boston on January 19, 1809. Edgar was the second of three children. His other brother William Henry Leonard Poe would also become a poet before his early death, and Poe’s sister Rosalie Poe would grow up to teach penmanship at a Richmond girls’ school. Within three years of Poe’s birth both of his parents had died, and he was taken in by the wealthy tobacco merchant John Allan and his wife Frances Valentine Allan in Richmond, Virginia while Poe’s siblings went to live with other families. Mr. Allan would rear Poe to be a businessman and a Virginia gentleman, but Poe had dreams of being a writer in emulation of his childhood hero the British poet Lord Byron. Early poetic verses found written in a young Poe’s handwriting on the backs of Allan’s ledger sheets reveal how little interest Poe had in the tobacco business.

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Reviews

[Katie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Especially loved - The Tomb of Sarah, The Sumach - vampire tree. Thats a new one for me; and Draculas Guest.

[Johnny O Reilly · Rating 4 out of 5]

A fantastic collection of stories. I would recommend dipping in and out as I did as a lot of these stories hold the same beats and tones and reading too many together can get repetitive. Great to have so many classic vampire tales in one place.

[Michael Crichlow · Rating 4 out of 5]

Favorite Tales: The Tomb of Sarah, Clarimonde & Wake Not The Dead (4/5)