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The Mammoth Book of Vampires

Award-winning horror editor Stephen Jones presents thirty-six modern masters of the macabre. Among them are: Harlan Ellison, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Paul McAuley, Peter Tremayne, Steve Rasnic Tem, and Ramsey Campbell.

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This anthology collects the very best in vampire fiction which blends sheer horror with dark humor, deadly tenderness with tingling terror. For the classic vampire, as this volume amply shows, the Blood is the Life. From Hugh B. Cave's pulp thriller "Stragella" through to Harold Waldrop's bizarre mix of vampire and Nazis in "Der Untergang Des Abendlandesmenschen" and Christopher Fowler's "The Legend of Dracula Reconsidered as a Primetime TV Special."

In between lie artful chillers by the likes of Clive Barker, Brian Lumley, R. Chetwynd-Hayes, Robert Bloch and John Burke, along with new and original stories by Niel Gaiman with "Cards from a Vampire Tarot," and Kim Newman with "Andy Warhol's Dracula: anno Dracula 1978-79."

You can sink your teeth, too, in F. Paul Wilson's fast-paced thriller "Midnight Mass," Manly Wade Wellman's "Chastel," offering bloody intrigue and adventure with Judge Keith Hilary Pursuivant; and Les Daniel's "Yellow Fog," which features his enigmatic vampire-hero Don Sebastian de Villanueva.

CONTENTS

Introduction: The Children of the Night by Stephen Jones

Human Remains by Clive Barker

Necros by Brian Lumley

The Man Who Loved The Vampire Lady by Brian Stableford

A Place To Stay by Michael Marshall Smith

The Brood by Ramsey Campbell

Root Cellar by Nancy Kilpatrick

Hungarian Rhapsody by Robert Bloch

The Legend of Dracula Reconsidered as a Prime-Time TV Special by Christopher Fowler

Vampire by Richard Christian Matheson

Stragella by Hugh B. Cave

A Week In The Unlife by David J. Schow

The House At Evening by Francis Garfield

Vampyrrhic Outcast by Simon Clark

The Labyrinth by R. Chetwynd-Hayes

Beyond Any Measure by Karl Edward Wagner

Doctor Porthos by Basil Copper

Straight To Hell by Paul McAuley

It Only Comes Out At Night by Dennis Etchison

Investigating Jericho by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Dracula's Chair by Peter Tremayne

A Taste For Blood by Sydney J. Bounds

The Better Half by Melanie Tem

The Devil's Tritone by John Burke

Chastel by Manly Wade Wellman

Der Untergang Des Abendlandesmenschen by Howard Waldrop

Red As Blood by Tanith Lee

Laird of Dunain by Graham Masterson

A Trick of the Dark by Tina Rath

Midnight Mass by F. Paul Wilson

Blood Gothis by Nancy Holder

Yellow Fog by Les Daniels

Fifteen Cards From a Vampire Tarot by Neil Gaiman

Vintage Domestic by Steve Rasnic Tem

Try A Dull Knife by Harlan Ellison

Andy Warhol's Dracula: Anno Dracula 1978-1979 by Kim Newman

Audience
adult
Length
long · 584 pages

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