Before Dracula: Early Vampire stories

by Lisandro Cottet (Editor)

From Folk Tales to Seductive Aristocrats. The best, most complete compilation of pre-Dracula Vampire stories, with illustrations from the era.
Deadly pale and blood thirsty, they’ve been preying on us more than a century before the Count’s first bite, discover the first bloody pillars of this accursed genre.

This anthology includes:

Account of A Vampire. (1738) by Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d’Argens.
Dead Persons in Hungary Who Suck the Blood of The Living. (1746) by Antoine Augustin Calmet.
THE VAMPYRE. (1819) by John William Polidori.
Wake Not the Dead. (1823) by Ernst Benjamin Salomo Raupach.
The Dead Leman. (1836) by Théophile Gautier.
The Family of the Vourdalak. (1839) by Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy.
Varney The Vampire or The Feast of Blood. (1845) (Illustrated) by James Malcolm Rymer and Thomas Peckett Prest.
The Mysterious Stranger. (1854) by Anonymous.
The Last Lords of Gardonal. (1867) by William Gilbert.
Carmilla. (1871) (Illustrated) by J. Sheridan LeFanu.
The Vampire Cat of Nabéshima. (1871) by A.B. Mitford.
Ken’s Mystery. (1883) by Julian Hawthorne.
The Old Portrait. (1890) by Hume Nisbet.
A Mystery of the Campagna. (1891) by Anne Crawford.

356 pages, Paperback

Published October 10, 2018