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    <body><![CDATA[Make sure you read E.F. Benson's &quot;The Room in the Tower&quot; with the lights on!]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I first got this book in high school, where I would read it in in-school suspension.  (Admit it, you can't read in class, so in-school suspension is where the real learning takes place.)  It is one of the best collections of vampire stories ever compiled--two centuries of vampire tales, as the subti...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7058508">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[the particular horror of the vampire is represented well in this collection of vampire stories. it organizes the stories in historical order which allows one  to see the progression of the vampire and vampire themes. when finished one is a  vampire connoiseur: an expert in vampire psychology, method...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6677106">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Pretty interesting. The book compiles a number of short stories either based upon or alluding to the creature of the night we now refer to as vampires. ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[So far the Tanith Lee story &quot;Bite-Me-Not&quot; was most excellent...currently reading the novella, &quot;The Unicorn Tapestry,&quot; by Suzy McKee Charnas.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[DOE has read this book.  Some of the stories were good - others were kinda hard to read - because of the time that they were written.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not cheesy. Not your typical hollywood crap stories. Most were written circa 1840's Good writing...]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Lots of wonderful short stories in this book!  A must have/read for all vampire lovers.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[So far, some amazing stories. Some slow-going with very little payoff.]]></body>
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