{"product_id":"2940012170798","title":"The Vampire Genome: The Best Vampire Stories, Poems and Essays (100 Texts)","description":"Contains Clickable Table of Contents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Vampire Genome (the companion volume to The Werewolf Genome) is the essential compendium of vampire literature. Equivalent to 1,500 printed pages, it traces the genesis and development of the vampire from Babylonian times to the twentieth century. The Vampire Genome collects 117 stories, poems and essays from around the world, including classic masterpieces, hard to find texts, curiosities (like vampires in Hebrew Literature and Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’), historical documents, studies on the folkloric and religious origin of the vampire and related creatures such as ghouls, succubus, werewolves and actual blood-sucking bats. The present volume also features new translations of texts by Lautremont, Baudelaire, Nodier and Quiroga, among others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMartin Monreal and Gabriela Garcia are the editors of the following anthologies: \"Masters of Horror, Suspense and the Supernatural: 100 Stories,\" \"The Vampire Genome: The Best Vampire Stories, Poems and Essays,\" \"Trail of the Necronomicon: An Anthology of the Stories and Novels that Influenced H.P. Lovecraft,\"  \"TWILIGHT CREATURES: 40 Stories of Vampires, Werewolves, and other Unspeakable Beings,\" and \"Love Hurts: the Best Vampire, Gothic and Supernatural Romances\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e(Partial) Table of Contents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMr. Elvesham by H.G. Wells\u003cbr\u003eCount Magnus by M.R. James\u003cbr\u003eThe House of the Vampire by George Viereck\u003cbr\u003eThe Case of Constance Armande\u003cbr\u003eThe Dream Doctor by Arthur Reeve\u003cbr\u003eThe Feather Pillow by Horacio Quiroga\u003cbr\u003eOnly a Dream by H. Rider Haggard\u003cbr\u003eSeaton’s Aunt by Walter De la Mare\u003cbr\u003eThe Inmost Light by Arthur Machen\u003cbr\u003eVampires in Germany\u003cbr\u003eUlysses (a fragment) by James Joyce\u003cbr\u003eA Vampire Ad\u003cbr\u003eFlorimel by J.B. Cabell\u003cbr\u003eThe Vampire of Buenos Aires\u003cbr\u003eOn Horror Literature by Goethe\u003cbr\u003eThe Bride of Corinth by Goethe\u003cbr\u003eThe Woman of Berkeley by Robert Southey\u003cbr\u003eChristabel by S.T. Coleridge\u003cbr\u003eThe Giaour by Lord Byron\u003cbr\u003eThe Prince Between the Coffins by Lord Byron\u003cbr\u003eFrankenstein (excerpt) by Mary Shelley\u003cbr\u003eThe Vampyre by John Polidori\u003cbr\u003eLa Belle Dame Sans Merci by John Keats\u003cbr\u003eArnold-Paul, Vampire by Charles Nodier\u003cbr\u003eClarimonde by Theophile Gautier\u003cbr\u003eVarney the Vampyre (excerpt) by Thomas Prest\u003cbr\u003eJane Eyre (excerpt) by Charlotte Brontë\u003cbr\u003eWuthering Heights (excerpt) by Emily Brontë\u003cbr\u003eThe Metamorphoses of the Vampire by Baudelaire\u003cbr\u003eThe Haunted and the Haunters by Bulwer Lytton\u003cbr\u003eMaldoror by the Count of Leautremont\u003cbr\u003eCarmilla by Sheridan Le Fanu\u003cbr\u003eThe Temptations of St. Anthony (excerpt) by Gustave Flaubert\u003cbr\u003eClara Militch by Ivan Turgenev\u003cbr\u003eThe Horla by Maupassant\u003cbr\u003eOlalla by R.L. Stevenson\u003cbr\u003eThe Ghost that Bit by Andrew Lang\u003cbr\u003eThe Fair by S. Baring-Gould\u003cbr\u003eThe Earth Draws by Jonas Lie\u003cbr\u003eThe Parasite by Conan Doyle\u003cbr\u003eThe Vampire by Rudyard Kipling\u003cbr\u003eJonathan Harker's Journal (from Dracula and Dracula’s Guest) by Bram Stoker\u003cbr\u003eA Vampire in India by H.P. Blavatsky\u003cbr\u003eThe Windigo by Mary Catherwood\u003cbr\u003eTravels in West Africa by Mary H. Kingsley\u003cbr\u003eLigeia by Edgar Allan Poe\u003cbr\u003eRapaccini’s Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne\u003cbr\u003eCannibalism in the Cars by Mark Twain\u003cbr\u003eThe Three Urgandas by Madison Cawein\u003cbr\u003eThe Death of Halpin Frayser by Ambrose Bierce\u003cbr\u003eNo. 252 Rue M. le Prince by R.A. Cram\u003cbr\u003eLuella Miller by Mary Freeman\u003cbr\u003eKen’s Mystery by Julian Hawthorne\u003cbr\u003eBabylonian Demonology\u003cbr\u003eRevenants in Ancient Egypt\u003cbr\u003eVampirism in Hebrew Literature\u003cbr\u003eSolomon and the Demons by M.R. James\u003cbr\u003eGreece and Rome: The Power of the Dead to Return to Earth\u003cbr\u003eThe Story of Apollonius of Tyana\u003cbr\u003eThe Corpse Watcher by Lucius Apuleius\u003cbr\u003eByzantium 542 A.D. by Procopius\u003cbr\u003eThe Kallikantzaroi by Clement Miles\u003cbr\u003eThe Tsarivna Arose from Her Coffin: A Cossack Folktale\u003cbr\u003eNukunguasik: An Eskimo Folktale\u003cbr\u003eMiyan Bhunga: A Tale from the Punjab\u003cbr\u003eVikram and the Vampire (fragment)\u003cbr\u003eThe Demon is at Last Conquered (India)\u003cbr\u003eThe Vampire: A Gypsy Folktale\u003cbr\u003eThe Penanggalan (Malasia)\u003cbr\u003eA Chinese Vampire\u003cbr\u003eJikininki (Japan)\u003cbr\u003eThe Basa-Jaun: A Basque Legend\u003cbr\u003eProtection Against Witchcraft (Welsh Folklore)\u003cbr\u003eThe Hospital Lane by W.B. 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