Weird Vampire Tales: 30 Blood-Chilling Stories from the Weird Fiction Pulps
Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Martin H. Greenberg
442 pages
ISBN: 0517060183
Status: Out of Print
Publisher: Gramercy Books
Pub. Date: 1992

Synopsis:
Collects a story from each of the "pulp" fiction magazines available from the 1920s to the 1950s, guaranteed to chill and thrill--if they don't make ill--all but the most bloodless readers.

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It has been almost one hundred years since a clutch of intrepid Englishmen drove a stake through Dracula's heart, and yet the cunning count, thanks in no small part to his creator, Bram Stoker, continues to exercise a tenacious hold on the imagination of both readers and writers. We refuse to let him die. Not that his immortality consists of a fixed image. Rivals of Dracula, a collection of stories written over the last five decades that feature Dracula as a character, is the culmination of theh vampire's exploits so far.

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As the tales in 1000 Viscious Little Vampire Stories make clear, there is no simple answer to the question: What is a vampire? For in this volume, no two vampires are exactly alike, and readers will find that their presence is not limited to the worlds of fantasy, horror, and science fiction; the vampire is equally at home in mundane worlds in which any suggestion of the supernatural is conspicuously lacking.

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This anthology of 13 vampire tales explores the even darker side of the World of Darkness' San Francisco. Authors include S.P. Somtow, Lois Tilton, Lawrence Watt-Evans and Matthew Costello.

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Featuring selections from such writers as Anne Rice, Edith Wharton, Joyce Carol Oates, Woody Allen, Ray Bradbury and Stephen King, Blood Thirst presents a blood-curdling collection of the best vampire fiction since the publication of Dracula 100 years ago. A roundup of over two dozen vampire tales illustrating the evolution of the genre since Bram Stoker, gathered by Wolf, our tireless annotator of terrorlit (Dracula, p. 372, etc.). What, Wolf asks, makes vampires so attractive today? He notes in his cogent Introduction that vampire tales draw from the gruesome in mainstream horror, the pulsing eroticism of bodice rippers, the supernatural in sword-and-sorcery. But blood is the primary metaphor, Wolf says, drawing on folk knowledge and traditions from Cain and Abel to Christ and transubstantiation, while the modern blood exchange brings on a kind of sexual dream- bliss beyond the facts of intercourse.

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Beware of conjurers and voodoo queens! In their wake, strange things happen. Witches shrink to the size of peas, and children are transformed into bugs or birds. But if fear hides in the folds of the voodoo queen's cloak, so does power. Conjure women and conjure men--versed in spells and potions to cure any ill--were once familiar figures in America. The occupation has dwindled, but the fascination remains. Their feats live on in folktales and history.