Draculas Brood Author:Richard Dalby The most famous vampire of them all is Bram Stoker's Dracula, published in 1897. But it was not the first piece of fiction to describe the doings of the undead, and it was by no means the last. — This unique anthology gathers together twenty=three rare vampire stories written by friends and contemporaries of Bram Stoker between 1867 and 1940. — Ri... more »chard Dalby has deliberately avoided stories that have been regularly reprinted and has concentrated instead on reviving neglected examples of the vampire genre - ranging from Frederick Cowles' beautiful but deadly Princess Bessenyei to tales of vampiric trees and fishes. A similarly wide range of authors is represented, including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Algernon Blackwood, Julian Hawthorne (son of Nathaniel), Vernon Lee, William Gilbert (father of W.S. Gilbert), Eliza Lynn Linton , and M.R. James.« less