Vampyres Lord Byron to Count Dracula Author:Christopher Frayling (Editor) Vampire literature is an amazingly varied genre of writing, providing elements of everything from the penny dreadful horrors to powerful doses of myth and eroticism. Because it contains its own mythology and its own set of rules, it has also proved a psychologically attractive genre for many writers from its Romantic inception to the present day... more ». This anthology includes Bram Stoker's detailed research notes for "Dracula", the culmination point of vampire literature. The author has written a full introduction, exploring the historical and imaginative implications of vampire mythology in the arts from the medieval Count Vlad to President Ceaucescu.
1. Lighten Our Darkness. A Voyage to the Levant / Joseph Pitton de Tournefort. Treatise on the Vampires of Hungary and Surrounding Regions / Dom Augustin Calmet
2. Lord Ruthven and His Clan. The Vampyre / John Polidori. Fragment of a Story / Lord Byron. A Visit to the Theatre / Alexandre Dumas. Varney, the Vampyre / James Malcolm Rymer
3. The Tempestuous Loveliness of Terror. Wake Not the Dead. Aurelia / E. T. A. Hoffmann. What Was It? / Fitz-James O'Brien. A Kiss of Judas / 'X. L.'
4. A Creature of Folklore. The Family of the Vourdalak / Alexis Tolstoy. The Fate of Madame Cabanel / Eliza Lynn Linton
5. The Genesis of Dracula. Bram Stoker's Working Papers for Dracula. Bram Stoker's Research Papers for Dracula
7. Haemosexuality. Psychopathia Sexualis / Richard von Krafft-Ebing. On the Vampire / Ernest Jones. The Psychoanalysis of Count Dracula / Maurice Richardson« less