Children of the Night: Classic Vampire Stories (Tales of Mystery & The Supernatural) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1840225467 ISBN 13: 9781840225464

Publisher: Wordsworth Editions, 2007

Synopsis

Selected and Introduced by David Stuart Davies.

Vampires, those dark children of the night, who rise from their coffins to suck the blood of the living, continue to hold a strange fascination and dread.

In this unique collection of vampire stories you will find some of the earliest depictions of these fearful creatures as in John Polidori's 'The Vampyre' and James Malcolm Rymer's 'Varney, the Vampyre', a tale which held readers in thrall when it was first published in the mid-nineteenth century.

As well as these rare stories and those featuring the more well known bloodsuckers such as Le Fanu's 'Carmilla' and Stoker's 'Dracula', there is a clutch of lesser known but equally frightening tales written by expert practitioners in the art of raising goose pimples. Children of the Night is a volume filled with the rich blood of chilling vampire fiction.

About this title

Synopsis

Vampires, those dark children of the night, who rise from their coffins to suck the blood of the living, continue to hold a strange fascination and dread. In this unique collection of vampire stories you will find some of the earliest depictions of these fearful creatures as in John Polidori's "The Vampyre" and James Malcolm Rymer's "Varney the Vampyre", a tale which held readers in thrall when it was first published in the mid-nineteenth century. As well as these rare stories and those featuring the more well known bloodsuckers such as Le Fanu's "Carmilla" and Stoker's "Dracula", there is a clutch of lesser known but equally frightening tales written by expert practitioners in the art of raising goose pimples. "Children of the Night" is a volume filled with the rich blood of chilling vampire fiction.

About the Author

An internationally recognized expert on Sherlock Holmes and Conan Doyle, David Stuart Davies is the editor of the crime fiction magazine Sherlock and the author of several books on Sherlock Holmes. He also edits the Crime Writers' Association's monthly Red Herrings magazine. Forests of the Night was his first Johnny Hawke novel. He lives in West Yorkshire, England.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1840225467
• ISBN 13: 9781840225464
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272