Fifteen chilling tales recount some of the earliest examples of vampire lore ever published.Gothic tales, traditional folklore, satire, psychological horror, and even romance set the stage for a diverse cast of undead characters, including the first ever black vampire story, gay vampires, lesbian vampires, psychic vampires, some old, some young, but all bloodthirsty!This anthology also features the first vampire story ever set in the Carpathian region ("The Mysterious Stranger", a possible influence on Bram Stoker), as well as Stoker's own story "Dracula's Guest", excised by his publisher from his classic Dracula novel before publication.

Vampyre Tales: An Anthology (Penny Dreadful)

Literature & Fiction

GAUTIER, Théophile

BLACKWOOD, ALGERNON

Hawthorne, Julian

Polidori, John William

Byron,Lord

Stoker., Bram

Genre Fiction

Darley Press

The original, serialized story of Sweeney Todd, presented here, recounts the disappearance of persons around the mysterious barber shop of Fleet Street. When Johanna Oakley suspects Mr. Todd is involved in the disappearance of her lover, she investigates the barber’s activities, uncovering an unfathomably heinous business involving the pie shop next door. The String of Pearls, as it was originally called, is a quintessential example of the cheap Victorian “penny dreadful”, which circulated among readers with an appetite for thrilling and violent stories.

Sweeney Todd: The Barber of Fleet Street

Rymer, James Malcolm

Prest, Thomas Peckett

As Stephen Calvert pursues marriage, he encounters baffling difficulties in courting two different women. Struggling to comprehend his circumstances, and on the brink of desperate action, he realizes that at the root of his misfortune is a mystery to be solved. 
The eponymous narrator relates his story while living a solitary existence in a mountainous wilderness, adopted as a refuge from his prior life of moral corruption and debauch. Originally published in serialized form, Calvert was projected to be a five part narrative but was abandoned after completion of just the first part. Although the story contained in this first part is resolved, we are left wondering how the other four parts may have led to his exile. 
Memoirs of Stephen Calvert is significant in being the first American novel to depict gay male sexuality (published in 1799-1800).

Memoirs of Stephen Calvert: A Novel

Brown, Charles Brockden

United States

Ten gripping tales span one-hundred years' worth of werewolf legends in this new anthology.\nWitness the traditional lore of lycanthropy, werewolfery and shape-shifting evolve over the years, from the Victorian gothic fantasy of Erckmann-Chatrian's The Man-Wolf, to Algernon Blackwood's two tales of atmospheric occultism, to the widely popular full moon and silver bullets of Clifford Ball's The Werewolf's Cry, published in 1941.

Werewolf Tales: An Anthology

Housman, Clemence

WALPOLE, Hugh

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