With Halloween just around the corner, I thought it would be a nice time to tackle this 1034 page doorstop of an anthology. It claims “The Most Complete Volume of Vampire Tales Ever Published” and I believe it!

Black Lizard Press published The Vampire Archives back in 2009. If you check out the Table of Contents I’m sure you’ll find your favorite vampire stories included.

If you’re a fan of vampire stories from the 19th Century, Otto Penzler includes plenty obscure vampire tales to satisfy you.

If you’re in the mood for stories with a bite, here’s a gold mine! GRADE: A

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Foreword by Kim Newman
Preface by Neil Gaiman
Introduction: “They Will Have Blood” by Otto Penzler
“Good Lady Ducayne” by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
“The Last Lords of Gardonal” (1867) by William Gilbert
“A Mystery of the Campagna” (1886) by Anne Crawford
“The Fate of Madame Cabanel” (1880) by Eliza Lynn Linton
“Let Loose” (1890) by Mary Cholmondeley
“The Vampire” (1886) poem by Vasile Alecsandrai
“The Death of Halpin Frayser” (1891) by Ambrose Bierce
“Ken’s Mystery” (1883) by Julian Hawthorne
“Carmilla” (1937) novella Sheridan Le Fanu
“The Tomb of Sarah” (1900) by F. G. Loring
“Ligeia” (1838) by Edgar Allan Poe
“The Old Portrait” (1890) by Hume Nisbet
“The Vampire Maid” (1890) by Hume Nisbet
“The Sad Story of a Vampire” (1894) by Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock
“A Case of Alleged Vampirism” by Luigi Capuana
“An Authenticated Vampire Story” (1909) by Franz Hartmann
“Revelations in Black” (1933) by Carl Jacobi
“The Master of Rampling Gate” (1984) by Anne Rice
“The Vampire of Kaldenstein” (1938) by Frederick Cowles
“An Episode of Cathedral History” (1914) by M. R. James
“Schloss Wappenburg” (1948) by D. Scott-Moncrieff
“The Hound” (1924) by H. P. Lovecraft
“Bite-Me-Not or, Fleur de Fur” (1984) by Tanith Lee
“The Horror at Chilton Castle” (1963) by Joseph Payne Brennan
“The Singular Death of Morton” (1910) by Algernon Blackwood
“The Death of Ilalotha” (1937) by Clark Ashton Smith
“The Bride of Corinth” (1797) poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The Giaour (excerpt) (1813) poem by Lord Byron
“La Belle Dame sans Merci” (1820) poem by John Keats
“Place of Meeting” (1953) by Charles Beaumont
“Duty” (1991) by Ed Gorman
“A Week in the Unlife” (1991) by David J. Schow
“Four Wooden Stakes” (1925) by Victor Rowan
“The Room in the Tower” (1912) by E. F. Benson
“Mrs. Amworth” (1922) by E. F. Benson
“Doctor Porthos” (1968) by Basil Copper
“For the Blood Is the Life” (1905) by F. Marion Crawford
“Count Magnus” (1904) by M. R. James
“When It Was Moonlight” (1940) by Manly Wade Wellman
“The Drifting Snow” (1939) by August Derleth
“Aylmer Vance and the Vampire (1914) by Alice Askew and Claude Askew
“Dracula’s Guest” [from Dracula]” (1914) by Bram Stoker
“The Transfer” (1911) by Algernon Blackwood
“The Stone Chamber” (1898) by H. B. Marriott Watson
“The Vampire” (1920) by Jan Neruda
“The End of the Story” (1930) by Clark Ashton Smith
“The Lovely Lady” (1927) by D. H. Lawrence
“The Parasite” (1894) by Arthur Conan Doyle
“Lonely Women Are the Vessels of Time” (1976) by Harlan Ellison
“Blood” (1955) by Fredric Brown
“Popsy” (1987) by Stephen King
“The Werewolf and the Vampire” (1975) by R. Chetwynd-Hayes
“Drink My Red Blood” (1951) by Richard Matheson
“Dayblood” (1985) by Roger Zelazny
“Replacements” (1992) by Lisa Tuttle
“Princess of Darkness” (1987) by Frederick Cowles
“The Silver Collar” (1989) by Garry Kilworth
“The Old Man’s Story” (1933) by Walter Starkie
“Will” (1899) by Vincent O’Sullivan
“Blood-Lust” (1922) by Dion Fortune
“The Canal” (1927) by Everil Worrell
“When Gretchen Was Human” (2001) by Mary A. Turzillo
“The Story of Chugoro” (1902) by Lafcadio Hearn
“The Men & Women of Revendale” (1984) by Steve Rasnic Tem
“Winter Flowers” (1993) by Tanith Lee
“The Man Who Loved the Vampire Lady” (1988) by Brian Stableford
“Midnight Mass” (1990) by F. Paul Wilson
“The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire” (1924) by Arthur Conan Doyle
“A Dead Finger” (1904) by Sabine Baring-Gould
“Wailing Well” (1928) by M. R. James
“Human Remains” (1984) by Clive Barker
“The Vampire” (1930) by Sydney Horler
“Stragella” (1932) by Hugh B. Cave
“Marsyas in Flanders” (1900) by Vernon Lee
“The Horla” (1886) by Guy de Maupassant (translated by Le Horla)
“The Girl with the Hungry Eyes” (1949) by Fritz Leiber
“The Living Dead” (1967) by Robert Bloch
“Down Among the Dead Men” (1982) by Gardner Dozois and Jack Dann
“Necros” (1986) by Brian Lumley
“The Man Upstairs” (1947) by Ray Bradbury
“Chastel” (1979) by Manly Wade Wellman
“Dracula’s Chair” (1980) by Peter Tremayne
“Special” (1991) by Richard Laymon
“Carrion Comfort” (1983) by Dan Simmons
“The Sea Was Wet as Wet Could Be” (1967) by Gahan Wilson