Vampires - A Short Story Collection: A collection of classic stories that helped influence the modern craze of Vampires, featuring authors such as ETA Hoffman, MR James, EF Benson, F Marion Crawford & more.

For almost everyone the idea of having our blood, our life-force, sucked out of us while we sleep is both disturbing and primordially real.Vampires are a popular tool of unease from authors down the decades. They come in all shapes and sizes, both male and female and for much of their time interact with everyday people as kind and helpful neighbours, not the product of our wildest fears.In this volume we can offer little in the way of comfort, but we can offer chilling fear so that the next time you want to fall asleep you may want to stay awake a little longer. The Vampyre. A Tale by John William PolidoriCount Magnus by M R JamesMrs Amworth by E F BensonThe Black Vampyre by Uriah Derick D'ArcyThe Last of the Vampires by Phil RobinsonVampirismus or Aurelia by E T A HoffmanThe Room in the Tower by E F BensonThe Vampire Maid by Hume NisbetThe Horror of Abbot's Grange by Frederick CowlesThe Vampire by Jan NerudaWake Not the Dead by Ernst RaupachAlymer Vance and the Vampire by Alice and Claude AskewFor the Blood is the Life by F Marion Crawford