The Vampire Omnibus

Haining has put together a collection tracing the roots of the vampire story, including some archival recovery of some work that has turned out to be quite interesting. His introductions to the pieces are quite useful and informative. The second part of the book traces the vampire through film, and has more in the way of excerpt pieces than stories. The third then goes back to some short stories by some more 'modern' writers in general, and their takes on some various vampire types. A solid book for those interested in vampire fiction, or vampires in general. Vampire Omnibus : 'The Destruction of Castle Dracula!' - Bram Stoker Vampire Omnibus : The Skeleton Count or The Vampire Mistress - Elizabeth Grey Vampire Omnibus : The Vampyre's Story - James Malcolm Rymer Vampire Omnibus : The Pale Lady - Alexandre Dumas and Paul Bocage Vampire Omnibus : The Grave of Ethelind Fionguala - Julian Hawthorne Vampire Omnibus : Let Loose - Mary Cholmondeley Vampire Omnibus : A True Story of a Vampire - Count Eric Stenbock Vampire Omnibus : Grettir at Thorhall-Stead - Frank Norris Vampire Omnibus : The Blood Fetish - Morley Roberts Vampire Omnibus : The Land of the Time-Leeches - Gustav Meyrink Vampire Omnibus : The Elder Brother - Charles Caldwell Dobie Vampire Omnibus : I the Vampire - Henry Kuttner Vampire Omnibus : The Bride of the Isles - Lord Byron Vampire Omnibus : Les Vampires - Eugene Sue Vampire Omnibus : Nosferatu - Paul Monette Vampire Omnibus : The Bat - Bela Lugosi Vampire Omnibus : Son of Dracula - Peter Tremayne Vampire Omnibus : The Cat People [The Bagheeta] - Val Lewton Vampire Omnibus : Dracula - Prince of Darkness - Jimmy Sangster Vampire Omnibus : Incense for the Damned - Simon Raven Vampire Omnibus : Dark Shadows - Marilyn Ross Vampire Omnibus : Return to 'Salem's Lot [One for the Road] - Stephen King Vampire Omnibus : Interview with the Vampire [SS] [Vampire Chronicles] - Anne Rice Vampire Omnibus : Uncle Vlad - Clive Sinclair Vampire Omnibus : Sanguinarius - Ray Russell Vampire Omnibus : Count Dracula - Woody Allen Vampire Omnibus : West of October - Ray Bradbury Vampire Omnibus : First Anniversary - Richard Matheson Vampire Omnibus : So Near the Darkness - Theodore Sturgeon Vampire Omnibus : Dayblood - Roger Zelazny Vampire Omnibus : Vampirella - Ron Goulart Vampire Omnibus : Getting Dead - William F. Nolan Vampire Omnibus : Reader I Buried Him - Basil Copper Vampire Omnibus : The Bleeder - Richard Laymon Vampire Omnibus : Dracula The Real Story - Jack Sharkey A small part that was apparently taken out of the original version of Dracula (along with the chapter known as the story Dracula's Guest', which makes it less ambiguous as to what happened to the aforementioned architecture des vampire. 4 out of 5