Dracula’s Guest A Connoisseur’s Collection of Victorian Vampire Stories 1st Edition by Michael Sims ISBN 0802719716 978-0802719713

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ISBN 10: 0802719716
ISBN 13: 978-0802719713
Author: Michael Sims

Before Twilight and True Blood, even before Buffy and Anne Rice and Bela Lugosi, vampires haunted the nineteenth century, when brilliant writers everywhere indulged their bloodthirsty imaginations, culminating in Bram Stoker’s legendary 1897 novel, Dracula.

Michael Sims brings together the very best vampire stories of the Victorian era-from England, America, France, Germany, Transylvania, and even Japan-into a unique collection that highlights their cultural variety. Beginning with the supposedly true accounts that captivated Byron and Shelley, the stories range from Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Oval Portrait” and Sheridan Le Fanu’s “Carmilla” to Guy de Maupassant’s “The Horla” and Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s “Good Lady Ducayne.” Sims also includes a nineteenth-century travel tour of Transylvanian superstitions, and rounds out the collection with Stoker’s own “Dracula’s Guest”-a chapter omitted from his landmark novel.

Vampires captivated the Victorians, as Sims reveals in his insightful introduction: In 1867, Karl Marx described capitalism as “dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor”; while in 1888 a London newspaper invoked vampires in trying to explain Jack the Ripper’s predations. At a time when vampires have been re-created in a modern context, Dracula’s Guest will remind readers young, old, and in between of why the undead won’t let go of our imagination.

Dracula’s Guest A Connoisseur’s Collection of Victorian Vampire Stories 1st Table of contents:

Part I: The Roots

They Opened the Graves

Dead Persons in Hungary

The End of My Journey

The Vampyre

Wake Not the Dead

The Deathly Lover

Part II: The Tree

The Family of the Vourdalak

Varney the Vampyre

What Was It?

The Mysterious Stranger

A Mystery of the Campagna

Death and Burial—Vampires and Were-Wolves

Let Loose

A True Story of a Vampire

Good Lady Ducayne

And the Creature Came In

The Tomb of Sarah

The Vampire Maid

Part III: The Fruit

Luella Miller

Count Magnus

Aylmer Vance and the Vampire

Dracula’s Guest

Acknowledgements

Bibliography and Suggested Further Reading

A Note on the Author

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