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Vampire Stories
At once glamorous and loathsome, vampires are among the most memorable figures in the literature and film of the horror genre. These undead beings, possessed of supernatural powers of metamorphosis and hypnotism, stalk the night for the blood of the living. They have fascinated and terrified generations of writers and readers. Here are 18 bone-chilling tales of these blood...more
Hardcover, 256 pages
Published
September 25th 1992
by Michael O'Mara Books
(first published January 1st 1992)
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Well, I wasn't kept up at night but these shorts were definitely some of the better ones I've read in the more "classical" collections. I was a little put off by the introduction by Peter Cushing who wrote the forward. He mentioned that Vlad Drakul means "the Devil" when, in fact, it means "the Dragon" and is spelled with a 'c.' See this article for more information. Ask the people of Romania and Vlad the Impaler is actually a hero to them. He didn't randomly impale people on spikes for shits an...more
An OK selection of vampire horror, set out in chronological order. Some of the older stories show their age, but the content gets better towards the end.
I'm not a big fan of short stories in general. Like most collections, this one has a couple of gems, amidst an otherwise mediocre mass. The reason full length novels are so good, is that you have time to really open up and develop everything. The world, the characters, the plot, the themes. All of this is really hard to fit into a short story, b...more
I'm not a big fan of short stories in general. Like most collections, this one has a couple of gems, amidst an otherwise mediocre mass. The reason full length novels are so good, is that you have time to really open up and develop everything. The world, the characters, the plot, the themes. All of this is really hard to fit into a short story, b...more
An odd and rather mediocre anthology of vampire short stories from Turgenev and D.H. Lawrence to Anne Rice and quite a few middling author's from the 1930s-50s whom I'd never really heard of before.
An excellent collection of short stories for people of all tastes. Not just centered on the popular blood-drinkers, there are quite a few about psychic vampires.
Boring. Only good thing was about the fact it was a novel collection. I could read one and put it down. I didn't ravage it like some other books.
Oct 01, 2007
Suvi
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3 of 5 stars
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Shelves:
short-stories,
_book-shelf,
1900-1939,
1970-1999,
1850-1899,
1940-1969,
vampires,
_great-britain,
_ireland,
_north-america,
_russia
Chronological overview on stories written 200 years ago all the way to present day. A must read to every vampire fan. Not very chilling but I found some interesting authors, like Turgenev, from whom I would like to try something else.
Good for short read.
May 01, 2013
Jenny Persson
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Shelves:
books-read-2013
May 05, 2013
Gmoney.gold
marked it as to-read
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