Dracula's Guest: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Vampire Stories

Introduction: The Cost of Living by Michael Sims PART I: THE ROOTS They Opened the Graves by Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens Dead Persons in Hungary by Antoine Augustin Calmet The End of My Journey by George Gordon, Lord Byron The Vampyre by John Polidori Wake Not the Dead attributed to Johann Ludwig Tieck The Deathly Lover by Théophile Gautier PART II: THE TREE The Family of the Vourdalak by Aleksei Tolstoy Varney the Vampyre by James Malcolm Rymer What Was It? by Fitz-James O'Brien The Mysterious Stranger by Anonymous A Mystery of the Campagna by Anne Crawford Death and Burial—Vampires and Were-Wolves by Emily Gerard Let Loose by Mary Cholmondeley A True Story of a Vampire by Eric, Count Stenbock Good Lady Ducayne by Mary Elizabeth Braddon And the Creature Came In by Augustus Hare The Tomb of Sarah by F. G. Loring The Vampire Maid by Hume Nisbet PART III: THE FRUIT Luella Miller by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Count Magnus by M. R. James Aylmer Vance and the Vampire by Alice and Claude Askew Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker Acknowledgments Bibliography and Suggested Further Reading