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Feb 27 12 5:35 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I love vampire stories. Here's what I've been able to find. I try to include a source whenever possible. What else is there? What are some of your favorites? Stuff before 1923 should be available online. Anything that isn't is highlighted in yellow. Let me know if you have a source (even if a print source is listed). Prose ???? The Corpse the Blood-Drinker; P’ou Song-lin; 17th C. traditional ???? The Coffin-Lid; Traditional Russian (Muscovite) Fairy Tale. Part of "Muscovite Folk-Lore" ???? The Bride of the Isles; Anonymous 1800 Wake Not the Dead (aka The Bride of the Grave); attributed to Johann Ludwig Tieck (may be by Ernst Raupach) Translated to English in 1823. 1816 A Fragment of a Novel (aka The Burial: A Fragment); George Gordon, Lord Byron 1819 The Vampyre (aka The Vampyre: a Tale); John Polidori (Lord Byron's personal physician) 1819 Lord Ruthven or The Vampires (Lord Ruthven ou les Vampires); Cyprien Berard. Said to be the first vampire novel. Wrongly attributed to Charles Nodier. 1819 "Vampirismus"; a section in "Die Erzählungen der Serapionsbrüder"; Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann. 1821 Smarra, ou les Demons de la Nuit (Smarra, or Night of the Demons); Charles Nodier. French 1823 Hans of Iceland; Victor Hugo 1825 La Vampire Ou La Vierge De Hongrie (The Vampire or The Hungarian Virgin); Étienne-Léon de Lamothe-Langon. Might be 1828. picture 1826 Der Vampyre und seine Braut (The Vampire and his Bride); Spindler 1827 La Guzla, ou Choix de Poesies Illyriques; Prosper Merimee. Purports to be an authentic collection of folklore, but allegedly, he made nearly all of them up himself. 1827 Der Vampyr; Friederike Ellmenreich 1828 The Skeleton Count, or the Vampire Mistress; Elizabeth Caroline Grey. The first vampire story by a woman. This is actually a forgery supposedly published in the (fabricated) weekly paper "The Casket" in 1828, but "discovered" by Peter Haining before 1995. Continuing the fake pedigree, "It was later published in the US under the title "Lena Cameron; Or, The Four Sisters" (Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson & Bros., [ca. 1850]), and in the 1995 collection The Vampire Omnibus" 1828 Der Vampyre, oder die Totenbraut (The Vampyre and the Dead Bride); Theodor Hildebrand 1829 The Vampires Of London; anonymous?; The Casket; Aug 22, 1829 -- This appears to be another forgery. Here's the cover of "The Casket" from 1829 1832 "The Eve of Ivan Kupala"; Nikolaj Vasilevic Gogol. From "Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka". Video: (Vechera na khutore bliz Dikanki (1961) with subtitles) 1835 Viy; Nikolai Vasilevic Gogol 1836 The Dead Lover (aka La Morte Amoureuse; Clarimonde, or The Beautiful Vampire; The Dead Woman in Love; The Dead Leman); Theophile Gautier 1838 Ligeia; Edgar Allan Poe -- The Vampire Archives 1839 The Family of the Vourdalak (Sem'ya Vurdalaka); Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy 1840 Der tote Gast (The Dead Guest); Zschokke (1869?) 1841 The Vampire (Upyr); Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy 1845 Varney the Vampyre, or, the Feast of Blood; James Malcolm Rymer (alternatively attributed to Thomas Preskett Prest) 1845 The Last of the Vampires; Smyth Upton 1847 Wuthering Heights; Emily Bronte. Heathcliff is suspected by his housekeeper of being a vampire. 1848 Vampyren; Viktor Rydberg 1849 "The Carpathian Mountains" (aka "The Pale Lady") from "The Thousand and One Ghosts" (Les Mille et un Fantomes); Alexandre Dumas & Paul Bocage. French original. English translation (by google): "The Carpathian Mountains" chapter in The Thousand and One Ghosts. -- The Vampire Omnibus 1852 La Baronne Trépassée (The Dead Baroness); Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail. Translated by Brian Stableford as "The Vampire and the Devil's Son" in 2007 1859 Quetait-ce? (What Was It?); Fitz-James O'Brien; Harpers Magazine; March 1859 1860 Le Chevalier Tenebre; Paul Henri Corentin Feval 1860 The Mysterious Stranger; anonymous; Could be originally 1823. Translated from the original German, this vampire tale appeared in the English magazine Odds and Ends in 1860. 1860 The Cold Embrace; Mary Elizabeth Braddon 1861 Le Vampire Du Val-de-Grace; Leon Gozlan. French 1865 La Vampire (aka The Vampire Countess); Paul Henri Corentin Feval 1866 Spirite; Theophile Gautier. French: text & audio 1867 The Last Lords of Gardonal; William Gilbert -- The Vampire Archives 1868 The Moonstone; Wilkie Collins 1871 "The Vampire Cat of Nabéshima" in Tales of Old Japan; Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford (Lord Redesdale) 1872 Carmilla; J. Sheridan Le Fanu audio -- The Vampire Archives 1872 Ombra; Mrs. Richard S. Greenough. Published in "Arabesques" 1874 La Ville Vampire; Paul Henri Corentin Feval 1879 Le Capitaine Vampire (Captain Vampire); Marie Nizet. Features a Russian officer, Boris Liatoukine, who is a vampire. 1880 The Fate of Madame Cabanel; Eliza Lynn Linton -- The Vampire Archives 1880 After Ninety Years; Milovan Glišic -- Movie: Leptricia (1973) (aka The She-Butterfly) 1881 The Man-Eating Tree; Phil Robinson. From Under the Punkah 1882 Klara Milich; Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev 1883 Life’s Secret; Rev. Lal Behari Day. From "Folk Tales of Bengal" 1884 Manor; Karl Heinrich Ulrichs 1886 The Horla; Guy de Maupassant -- The Vampire Archives 1887 Ken's Mystery (aka The Grave of Ethelind Fionguala); Julian Hawthorne -- The Vampire Archives 1887 A Mystery of the Campagna; Anne Crawford (under pseudonym Von Degen) -- The Vampire Archives 1890 The Old Portrait; Hume Nisbet -- The Vampire Archives 1890 The Vampire Maid; Hume Nisbet -- The Vampire Archives 1890 Let Loose; Mary Cholmondeley -- The Vampire Archives 1892 The Castle of the Carpathians; Jules Verne 1894 The Parasite; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Miss Penelosa is a human vampire or psychic sponge. -- The Vampire Archives 1893 The Death of Halpin Frayser; Ambrose Bierce -- The Vampire Archives 1894 A Kiss of Judas; X.L. (Julian Osgood Field). In Aut diabolus aut nihil, and other tales 1894 The True Story of a Vampire (aka The Sad Story of a Vampire); Stanislaus Eric aka Count Eric Stenbock -- The Vampire Archives 1895 Lilith; George MacDonald 1896 Good Lady Ducayne; Mary Elizabeth Braddon -- Vampire Stories by Women, The Vampire Archives 1896 The Vampire of Croglin Grange; Augustus Hare 1896 Phorfor; Matthew Phipps Shiel 1897 Dracula's Guest; Bram Stoker -- The Vampire Archives 1897 Dracula; Bram Stoker 1897 The Flowering of the Strange Orchid; H.G. Wells. Introduces a botanical vampire. The Short Stories of H G Wells 1899 The Stone Chamber; H B Marriott Watson -- The Vampire Archives 1899 The Dead Smile; F. Marion Crawford 1899 Will; Vincent O'Sullivan -- The Vampire Archives 1899 The Purple Terror; Fred M. White 1900 The Mask; Richard Marsh 1900 Marsyas in Flanders; Vernon Lee -- The Vampire Archives 1900 The Tomb of Sarah; F. G. Loring -- The Vampire Archives 1902 The Story of Chugoro; Lafcadio Hearn (aka Koizumi Yakumo). From: Kotto being Japanese curios, with sundry cobwebs -- The Vampire Archives 1903 Grettir at Thorhall-Stead; Frank Norris -- The Vampire Omnibus 1903 Luella Miller; Mary E. Wilkins-Freeman -- Vampire Stories by Women 1903 An Unscientific Story; Louise J. Strong 1904 Count Magnus; M R James -- The Vampire Archives 1904 A Dead Finger; Sabine Baring-Gould -- The Vampire Archives 1904 Glamr; Sabine Baring-Gould 1904 In The Dwellings Of The Wilderness; Taylor C Bryson 1906 The Vampire (aka A Case of Alleged Vampirism); Luigi Capuana -- The Vampire Archives 1906 The Woman in Black; M. Y. Halidom 1906 Lazarus; Leonid Andreyev 1907 Amina; Edward Lucas White 1907 The House of the Vampire; George Sylvester Viereck 1907 The Feather Pillow; Horacio Quiroga 1908 The Blood Fetish; Morley Roberts -- The Vampire Omnibus 1910 The Singular Death of Morton; Algernon Blackwood -- The Vampire Archives 1909 An Authenticated Vampire Story; Dr. Franz Hartmann -- The Vampire Archives 1911 The Lair of the White Worm; Bram Stoker 1911 For the Blood is the Life; F. Marion Crawford. -- The Vampire Archives 1911 Wampir (The Vampire); Wladyslaw Reymont 1911 Vampires, Were-Wolves, Fox-Women, Etc.; Elliott O’Donnell. From Byways of Ghost-land 1912 The Room in the Tower; E.F. Benson -- The Vampire Archives 1912 The Transfer; Algernon Blackwood -- The Vampire Archives 1912 The Rockery; E. G. Swain 1913 The Vampire; Reginald Hodder 1913 The Haunted House; Edith Nesbit -- Vampire Stories by Women 1914 An Episode of Cathedral History; M R James -- The Vampire Archives 1914 Aylmer Vance and the Vampire; Alice & Claude Askew -- The Vampire Archives 1914 A Note on Vampires; Jessie Adelaide Middleton 1914 The Sumach; Ulric Daubeny 1915 The Spider; Hans Heinz Ewers 1919 The Lady of Rosemount; Sir T. G. Jackson 1920 The Land of the Time-Leeches; Gustav Meyrink -- The Vampire Omnibus 1920 Mrs. Amworth; E. F. Benson -- The Vampire Archives 1920 The Vampire; Jan Neruda -- The Vampire Archives 1922 Negotium Perambulans; E. F. Benson 1922 The Undying Monster; Jessie Douglas Kerruish 1923 Seaton’s Aunt; Walter de la Mare Copyright law intervenes around here 1924 The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire; Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Vampire Archives 1924 The Hound; H P Lovecraft -- The Vampire Archives 1925 The Elder Brother; Charles Caldwell Dobie -- The Vampire Omnibus 1925 Four Wooden Stakes; Victor Roman -- The Vampire Archives 1926 Blood Lust; Dion Fortune -- The Vampire Archives 1927 The Canal; Everil Worrell -- The Vampire Archives 1927 Bewitched; Edith Wharton -- Cildren of the Night 1927 The Lovely Lady; D H Lawrence -- The Vampire Archives 1928 Wailing Well; M R James -- The Vampire Archives 1930 The End of the Story; Clark Ashton Smith -- The Vampire Archives 1930 The Vampire; Sydney Horler -- The Vampire Archives 1932 Stragella; Hugh B Cave -- The Vampire Archives 1933 The Old Man's Story; Walter Starkie -- The Vampire Archives 1933 Revelations in Black; Carl Jacobi -- The Vampire Archives 1937 The Death of Ilalotha; Clark Ashton Smith -- The Vampire Archives 1937 I, the Vampire; Henry Kuttner -- The Vampire Omnibus 1938 The Vampire of Kaldenstein; Frederick Cowles -- The Vampire Archives 1939 The Drifting Snow; August Derleth -- The Vampire Archives 1940 When it was Moonlight; Manly Wade Wellman -- The Vampire Archives 1947 The Man Upstairs; Ray Bradbury -- The Vampire Archives 1948 Schloss Wappenburg; D Scott-Moncrieff -- The Vampire Archives 1949 The Girl with the Hungry Eyes; Fritz Leiber -- The Vampire Archives 1951 Drink My Red Blood; Richard Matheson -- The Vampire Archives 1953 Place of Meeting; Charles Beaumont -- The Vampire Archives 1954 Blood; Frederick Brown -- The Vampire Archives 1954 I Am Legend; Richard Matheson (novel) 1963 The Horror at Chilton Castle; Joseph Payne Brennan -- The Vampire Archives 1967 The Living Dead; Robert Bloch -- The Vampire Archives 1967 The Sea Was Wet As Could Be, Gahan Wilson -- The Vampire Archives 1968 Doctor Porthos; Basil Copper -- The Vampire Archives 1975 Salem's Lot; Stephen King (novel) 1975 The Werewolf and the Vampire; R Chetwynd-Hayes -- The Vampire Archives 1976 Interview with the Vampire; Anne Rice (novel) 1976 Lonely Women are the Vessels of Time; Harlan Ellison -- The Vampire Archives 1977 Sangre; Lisa Tuttle -- Vampire Stories by Women 1979 Chastel; Manly Wade Wellman -- The Vampire Archives 1980 Dracula's Chair; Peter Tremayne -- The Vampire Archives 1982 Down Among the Dead Men; Gardner Dozois & Jack Dann -- The Vampire Archives 1984 Bite-Me-Not or, Fleur de Fur; Tanith Lee -- The Vampire Archives 1984 Human Remains; Clive Barker -- The Vampire Archives 1984 The Master of Rampling Gate; Anne Rice -- Vampire Stories by Women, The Vampire Archives 1984 The Men & Women of Rivendale; Steve Rasnic Tem -- The Vampire Archives 1985 Dayblood; Roger Zelazny -- The Vampire Archives 1986 Miss Massingberd and the Vampire; Tina Rath -- Vampire Stories by Women 1986 Necros; Brian Lumley -- The Vampire Archives 1986 Night Laughter; Ellen Kushner -- Vampire Stories by Women 1987 Popsy; Stephen King -- The Vampire Archives 1988 The Man Who Loved the Vampire Lady; Brian Stableford -- The Vampire Archives 1988 My Brother's Keeper; Pat Cadigan -- Vampire Stories by Women 1988 Prince of Flowers; Elizabeth Hand -- Vampire Stories by Women 1989 The Silver Collar; Garry Kilworth -- The Vampire Archives 1990 Midnight Mass, E Paul Wilson -- The Vampire Archives 1991 Duty; Ed Gorman -- The Vampire Archives 1991 Jack; Connie Willis -- Vampire Stories by Women 1991 Special; Richard Laymon -- The Vampire Archives 1991 Venus Rising on Water; Tanith Lee -- Vampire Stories by Women 1991 A Week in the Unlife; David J Schow -- The Vampire Archives 1992 Replacements; Lisa Tuttle -- The Vampire Archives 1993 Butternut and Blood; Kathryn Ptacek -- Vampire Stories by Women 1993 Carion Comfort; Dan Simmons -- The Vampire Archives 1993 Princess of Darkness; Frederick Cowles -- The Vampire Archives 1993 Winter Flowers; Tanith Lee -- The Vampire Archives 1994 A Question of Patronage; Chelsea Quinn Yarbro -- Vampire Stories by Women 1996 One Among Milions; Yvonne Navarro -- Vampire Stories by Women 1998 Homewrecker; Poppy Z Brite -- Vampire Stories by Women 1998 Vampire King of the Goth Chicks; Nancy A Collins -- Vampire Stories by Women 1999 Aftermath; Janet Berliner -- Vampire Stories by Women 1999 The Raven Bound; Freda Warrington -- Vampire Stories by Women 1999 The Vengeful Spirit of Lake Nepeakea; Tanya Huff -- Vampire Stories by Women 2000 Lunch at Charon's; Melanie Tem -- Vampire Stories by Women 2001 Bootleg; Christina Faust -- Vampire Stories by Women 2001 Forever, Amen; Elizabeth Massie -- Vampire Stories by Women 2001 Hikaso San; Ingrid Pitt -- Vampire Stories by Women 2001 Just His Type; Storm Constantine -- Vampire Stories by Women 2001 La Diente; Nancy Kilpatrick -- Vampire Stories by Women 2001 A North Light; Gwyneth Jones -- Vampire Stories by Women 2001 Outfangthief; Gala Blau -- Vampire Stories by Women 2001 Services Rendered; Louise Cooper -- Vampire Stories by Women 2001 Sleeping Cities; Wendy Webb -- Vampire Stories by Women 2001 So Runs the World Away; Caitlin R Kiernan -- Vampire Stories by Women 2001 Turkish Delight; Roberta Lannes -- Vampire Stories by Women 2001 Vampyr; Jane Yolen -- Vampire Stories by Women 2001 When Gretchen Was Human; Mary A Turzillo -- Vampire Stories by Women, The Vampire Archives 2001 Year Zero; Gemma Files -- Vampire Stories by Women History, Folklore, etc 1679 Philippe Roht wrote a dissertation on the dead and how they feed from their graves. 1679 Lieutenant Colonel Buttener published his report of his personal run in with vampires in a Serbian town called Medvegia. 1679 The Prussian Royal Society of the Sciences also published papers on vampiric activities. 1706 Magia Posthuma; Charles Ferdinand de Schertz 1732 Vampire debate 1732 Letter to the editor in "Commercii litterarii ad rei medicae et scientiae naturalis incremementum institute"; Johann Friedrich Glaser; March 22nd 1732; Nuremberg. info 1732 The Craftsman Magazine; No 307; London. One of the very first reports in english about Vampires in the Humgarian village Medreyga Jan 7 1732. pictures 1733 Vernünftige und christliche Gedancken über die Vampirs; J.CH. Harenberg. A early tract on Vampires. picture 1734 Michael Ranft wrote a paper that clearly distinguished the differences between actual vampires and the nightmare illusions that some people suffered from. 1738 Jewish Letters (Lettres Juives); Jean-Baptiste de Boyer (Marquis d'Argens). A thesis that analyzed the various examples of vampires that were known to him. 1746 Dissertation sur les Apparitions des spirit et sur les revenants et vampires. Antoine Augustin Calmet. Translated as "The Phantom World" in 1850. 1748 Thérèse Philosophe; Jean-Baptiste de Boyer (Marquis d'Argens) 1770 Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary includes an article on vampires. 1820 Historie Des Vampires; Collin de Plancy. A scarse and famous history of vampires. 1870 Vikram and the Vampire; Sir Richard F. Burton 1885 Transylvanian Superstitions; Emily Gerard 1888 The Land Beyond The Forest: Facts, Figures and Fancies From Transylvania; E. Gerard. 1891 The Vampire: A scarse History of The Vampire; H.S Olcott; Theosophist, Vol XII 1914 Vampires & Vampirism; Dudley Wright. 1929 The Vampire: His Kith and Kin; Montague Summers Poetry @17 Book VI June 1: Kalends in Fasti; Ovid @120 "The Vampire"; Lucius Apuleius aka Lucii Apulei. Chapter 5 from The Golden Asse (aka Metamorphosis) @140 On Marvels; Phlegon of Tralles [see "Fragmenta Historicorum Graecorum"; Carolus Muller, late 1800s] @240 Life of Apollonius of Tyana; Philostratus 1748 Der Vampir; Heinrich August Ossenfelder 1773 Lenore; Gottfried August Burger. Could be 1790. 1797 The Bride of Corinth; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- The Vampire Archives 1797 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner; Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1798 The Old Woman of Berkeley; Robert Southey 1801 Thalaba the Destroyer; Robert Southey 1810 The Vampyre; John Stagg. Originally published in Minstrel of the North 1813 The Giaour; Lord George Gordon Byron -- The Vampire Archives 1816 Christabel; Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1820 La Belle Dame sans Merci; John Keats -- The Vampire Archives 1820 Lamia; John Keats 1833 The Vampire Bride by Liddell Henry Thomas Liddell Ravensworth 1845 The Vampyre; James Clerk Maxwell 1857 The Vampire; Charles-Pierre Baudelaire 1860 Metamorphosis of a Vampire; Charles-Pierre Baudelaire 1882 The Vampyre; Owen Meredith 1886 The Vampyre (Strigoiul); Vasile Alecsandri -- The Vampire Archives 1897 The Vampire; Rudyard Kipling 1909 The Vampirine Fair, Thomas Hardy 1914 The Vampire, Conrad Aiken Early Plays 1820 The Vampire or, The Bride of the Isles; James Planche (adaptation of Le Vampire) 1820 Le Vampire; Charles Nodier 1828 Der Vampyr; Heinrich Marschner and Wilhelm Wohlbruck 1851 Le Vampire; Alexandre Dumas 1925 Dracula; produced at the Wimbledon Theatre I've heard about these, but don't have a copy 1931 The Dark Castle; Marion Brandon 1946 There Were No Asper Ladies; Eugene Ascher 1960 Natural History ("Les històries naturals" in the original Catlan); Joan Perucho. Translated into English by David H. Rosenthal in 1988. 1960 The Longest Night; Ray Russell. 1973 Pages from a Young Girl's Journal; Robert Aickman 1980 The Vampire Tapestry; Suzy McKee Charnas. 1981 Vampyr; Jan Jennings. 1981 The Keep; F. Paul Wilson. 1981 They Thirst; Robert McCammon. 1982 Castle Dubrava; Yuri Kapralov 1982 The Curse of the Vampire; Karl Alexander 1982 Fevre Dream; George R. R. Martin. 1982 The Delicate Dependency; Michael Talbot 1983 The Dragon Waiting; John M. Ford 1986 The Light at the End; John Skipp and Craig Spector 1987 How Dear the Dawn; Marc Eliot. 1987 My Lover, My Cousin, My Vampire; Summermist Steeligian 1988 The Night Flyer; Stephen King. 1988 Those Who hunt the Night (UK title: Immortal Blood); Barbara Hambly 1989 The Stress of Her Regard; Tim Powers 1990 Vampire$; John Steakley. 1991 The Gilda Stories; Jewelle Gomez. 1991 Knight of the Black Rose; James Lowder 1991 The Silver Kiss; Annette Curtis Klause. 1991 Vampire of the Mists; Christie Golden 1992 Lost Souls; Poppy Z. Brite 1993 Darkness on the Ice; Lois Tilton. 1993 Daughters of Darkness; Pam Keesey ed. An anthology of lesbian vampire stories. 1993 Suckers; Anne Billson 1993 I, Strahd, Memories of the Vampire; P.N. Elrod 1995 Dark Angels; 1995 The Night Inside; Nancy Baker 1995 Travelling with the Dead; Barbara Hambly. Sequel to Immortal Blood. 1996 The Hunger and Ecstasy of Vampires; Brian Stableford. 1996 The Kiss; Kathryn Reines 1997 Dracula the Undead; Freda Warrington. Commissioned by Penguin books as a sequel to Bram Stoker's Dracula for the centenary of the latter's first publication. 1998 I, Strahd, the War with Azalin; P.N. Elrod 1998 Carpe Jugulum; Terry Pratchett 1999 Cowboy and The Vampire: A Very Unusual Romance; Clark Hays 2003 Sunshine; Robin McKinley 2004 What Big Teeth You Have: A Vampire Tale; Jimmy Autrey 2004 Let the Right One In (Låt Den Rätte Komma In); John Ajvide Lindqvist. Translated into English 2007. 2005 The Historian; Elizabeth Kostova 2005 Fledgling; Octavia Butler 2006 Renfield: Slave of Dracula; Barbara Hambly 2006 The Nymphos of Rocky Flats; Mario Acevedo 2006 "Morrigan's Cross", "Dance of the Gods" and "Valley of Silence"; Nora Roberts. The Circle Trilogy 2007 Fangland; John Marks 2007 Asetian Bible; Luis Marques 2007 The Society of S; Susan Hubbard 2008 The Year of Disappearances; Susan Hubbard 2009 Twelve; Jasper Kent 2009 A Sigh for Life's Completion; Sara Kuhns 2010 Blood Hunger; A. M. Esmonde 2010 Blood Oath; Christopher Farnsworth 2010 Blood and Sunlight: A Maryland Vampire Story; Jamie Wasserman 2010 ...And At The End Remained The Nightmare; Oliviu Craznic 2011 Modern Marvels - Viktoriana; Wayne Reinagel Guide to Resources on CHFB Last Edited By: SiBurning Aug 22 12 6:01 AM. Edited 10 times.
Helrunar		#1	[-]
Feb 29 12 10:26 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	The Room in the Tower is such a wonderful tale. It really gives one the feeling of a waking nightmare. This is a great list, although in some of these works (there are many here I have not read), the theme of vampirism is a mere whisper or hint. "Seaton's Aunt" is one of the most realistic presentations of a kind of vampirism that is much more widespread than most have understood. H.
SiBurning		#2	[-]
Feb 29 12 11:03 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Helrunar wrote: in some of these works the theme of vampirism is a mere whisper or hint. Yeah! I've only read about 70%. Some of my favorites don't belong, like Ligeia, Viy, and The Horla. Some of my other favorites are Varney the Vampire, Carmilla, The Vourdalak, and Bite-Me-Not or Fleur de Fur. There's some interesting stuff in the history section--I'll get some links up soon. Maybe I'll also segregate the ones that don't belong. For "modern" stuff, I only have 2 books, aside from some Weird Tales anthologies. Vampire Stories by Women & The Vampire Archives. I don't think The Vampire Omnibus has much new stuff. If anyone wants to point out some more... (But no whiny vampires.) Guide to Resources on CHFB Last Edited By: SiBurning Feb 29 12 11:26 PM. Edited 5 times.
oldmanster		#3	[-]
Mar 2 12 4:21 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Not sure what you're trying to do here. You've listed a few stories/novels from 2000 on, but you're missed a ton of material. Might be better to section off the material and work on a shorter timeframe with stuff you're familiar with. ... Reed
SiBurning		#4	[-]
Mar 2 12 8:33 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I'm not sure either. Really, I just want to read more. Maybe "stuff you're familiar with" is a better starting point. It's reorganized to make more sense. I also "sectioned off" stuff I don't have a source for, except stuff before 1923 which should be available somewhere. Thanks for the clarity. Hopefully, adding a source for everything makes this useful for others. Guide to Resources on CHFB Last Edited By: SiBurning Mar 2 12 8:43 PM. Edited 2 times.
oldmanster		#5	[-]
Mar 3 12 4:23 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	It's an interesting list, nevertheless. There are many authors there that I've never heard of, not that I'm an expert on the sub-genre, but I do stay tuned in through a few magazines like Locus. Are some of these authors strictly ezine/download stuff, or are you citing actual books and/or stories that have appeared in actual books? Off the top of my head I can add P.N. Elrod's vampire series (not sure of the dates for individual books, but easy to look up). There is also our own Tim Lucas's Renfield (which may be more about Renfield than any vampire). I'm happy to see the two Barbara Hambly books listed -- the first is one of the best novels of the genre. And I don't see George R.R. Martin's Fevre Dream, which is simply a classic of the sub-genre. You need to throw in a handful of the late Richard Laymon's oeuvre, like The Stake and The Traveling Vampire Show. [edit: I see now that you have included the Martin, and a couple of P.N. Elrod from a different series than I was thinking about. Sorry about scanning so fast. I would question inclusion of The Keep -- despite the embedded crosses in the walls, the problem is not vampires. And did I miss Anne Rice's Lestat books?] ... Reed Last Edited By: oldmanster Mar 3 12 4:33 PM. Edited 2 times.
SiBurning		#6	[-]
Mar 3 12 10:05 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I don't remember where the stuff in that last section came from--a combination of places, probably. Maybe I should toss that section--it might have some whiny vampires. Thanks for the recommendations. I'm a slow reader, so I prefer short stories, but I'll pick up a couple of those. Guide to Resources on CHFB
SweetGoth	Skeleton Count Not in Lena Cameron	#7	[-]
Aug 22 12 1:19 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I don't know where the idea that 1828 The Skeleton Count, or the Vampire Mistress; Elizabeth Caroline Grey is in "Lena Cameron; Or, The Four Sisters" (Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson & Bros., [ca. 1850]). I have a copy of the original 1856 manuscript of Lena Cameron, and there is no speck of The Skeleton Count in it. If you want to check, there is a Kindle version of Lena Cameron available.
SiBurning		#8	[-]
Aug 22 12 5:59 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Yes, but is "Lena Cameron" any good? The whole pedigree of The Skeleton Count is a fake. There's a good account in this master's thesis. I think he says that "lay criticism" claims The Skeleton Count was an early title for "Lena Cameron", for what that's worth. I also posted something on CHFB about it in passing while looking for The Vampires of London. Personally, I can't accept the 1828 date--it seems early by at least 50 years, if not 150--though I really like the story. I updated that entry, but need to do a better job. The whole thread could use a makeover. Maybe just stick to 1925 and earlier, and link to some of the older stuff. Guide to Resources on CHFB Last Edited By: SiBurning Aug 22 12 6:07 AM. Edited 3 times.
skatta		#9	[-]
Aug 28 12 9:49 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Some links - all in French : Lord Ruthven ou les Vampires - Cyprien Berard - Volume One - Volume Two La Guzla, ou Choix de Poesies Illyriques - Prosper Merimee Le Chevalier Tenebre - Paul Henri Corentin Feval La Ville Vampire - Paul Henri Corentin Feval - link to a free pdf download
ByronOrlok		#10	[-]
Aug 29 12 2:05 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Possibly I've scanned through your (MASSIVE) list too quickly, but I don't see Les Daniels' excellent Don Sebastian novels, or Kim Newman's Anno Dracula series. Also, Brian Stableford's "Empire of Fear" and Lucius Shepard's "The Golden" are worth a look.

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