Wilkins-Freeman, Edith Wharton, August Derleth, and Ray Bradbury to such contemporary masters as Anne Rice, Stephen King, Joyce Carol Oates, John Cheever, and Woody Allen, and in settings as diverse as rural New England and outer space, this collection offers readers a dazzling compendium ofvampire stories. Symbolic and attractive!'Now, in Blood Thirst: One Hundred Years of Vampire Fiction, Leonard Wolf brings together thirty tales in which vampires of all varieties make their ghastly presence felt-male and female, human and non-human, humorous and heroic-all of them kin to the dreadful bat.

The blood exchange-the taking of blood by the vampire from his or her victim is, all by itself, felt to be a singularly symbolic event. And, as Leonard Wolf suggests, 'Vampirefiction.exerts an amazing pull on readers for a reason that we may find disturbing. Aristocratic and urbane, deeply erotic and profoundly evil, Dracula's bloodsucking savagery has cast a mesmerizing fascination not only over his victims but over his readers as well. In film, television, novels, and short stories, he keeps coming back to life, fed by the vital imaginative energies of aworld-wide audience that cannot seem to resist his abominable charms. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.īlood Thirst by Leonard Wolf (Editor) In the past hundred years, since the publication of Bram Stoker's infamous book, no literary figure has enjoyed a more horrific resiliency than Count Dracula. It's all a mistake, an insignificant stain of existence, forgotten by an unwitting and indifferent creator. For mankind is not-and never has been-the bright light of creation. What began as a search for knowledge soon becomes a terrifying confrontation with the true nature of the world and the universe in all its stark blackness and unyielding oblivion. Eight similar tombs are empty, but they haven't been broken into-they've been broken out of. There is no evidence of what happened except a series of burial mounds, six of which contain dead specimens of unknown species.

In the uncharted wastes of Antarctica, an exploration party from Miskatonic University encounters a gory sight when they discover their advance team's camp has been destroyed and its members slaughtered.

At the Mountains of Madness by Howard Phillips Lovecraft This classic mind-shattering tale, which 'ranks high among the horror stories of the English language,' plunges into the darkness of the Cthulhu mythos (Time).

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