My favorite story in The Ultimate Dracula (1991) is Edward D. Hoch’s “Dracula 1944.” Dracula is scary enough to blend in a German concentration camp really amps up the horror!
Although most of the stories in The Ultimate Dracula present various incarnations of the vampire, I would hardly call this anthology “ultimate.” It just okay. GRADE: C+
If you’re a vampire fan, I recommend a book I reviewed recently: The Vampire Archives. You can read my review here.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
- The Ultimate Dracula • interior artwork by David Johnson
- 1 • Happy Birthday, Dracula! • essay by Leonard Wolf
- 15 • The Master of Rampling Gate • (1984) • novelette by Anne Rice
- 45 • All Dracula’s Children • novelette by Dan Simmons
- 75 • A Matter of Style • novelette by Ron Dee
- 101 • Selection Process • short story by Ed Gorman
- 117 • The Vampire in His Closet • short story by Heather Graham
- 139 • The Tenth Scholar • short story by Melanie Tem and Steve Rasnic Tem
- 155 • Nobody’s Perfect • short story by Philip José Farmer?
- 171 • Dracula 1944 • short story by Edward D. Hoch
- 189 • The Contagion • short story by Janet Asimov
- 203 • Sugar and Spice and… • short story by Karen Robards
- 221 • Vampire Dreams • short story by Dick Lochte
- 237 • Much at Stake • short story by Kevin J. Anderson
- 255 • The Name of Fear • short story by Lawrence Watt-Evans
- 267 • The Dark Rising • short story by Rodman Philbrick [as by W. R. Philbrick]
- 281 • Los Niños de la Noche • short story by Tim Sullivan
- 295 • A Little Night Music • short story by Mike Resnick
- 305 • Mr. Lucrada • short story by John Lutz
- 321 • In the Cusp of the Hour • short story by John Gregory Betancourt
- 327 • Children of the Night • short story by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
- 349 • Selected Filmography (The Ultimate Dracula) • essay by Leonard Wolf