Love Hurts: the Best Vampire, Gothic and Supernatural Romances

Torito Press brings together classic texts from around the world at an affordable price, hoping to make great literature available to everybody.

"Love Hurts" includes the best vampire, gothic and supernatural romances. It includes three landmark novels (The Man-Wolf by Erckmann-Chatrian, The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe, and the controversial The House of the Vampire by George Viereck) as well as a selection of the best tales and short stories in the genre.

Martin 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," and "TWILIGHT CREATURES: 40 Stories of Vampires, Werewolves, and other Unspeakable Beings."


TABLE OF CONTENTS

CARMILLA (1872) Sheridan Le Fanu
CLARA MILITCH (1883) Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev
CLARIMONDE (1836) Théophile Gautier
CHRISTABEL (1800) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
THE STORY OF AOYAGI Japanese Folk-Tale
THE BOTTLE IMP (1893) Robert Louis Stevenson
KEN’S MYSTERY (1883) Julian Hawthorne
THE MAN-WOLF (1876) Erckmann-Chatrian
BISCLAVARET (12th Century) Marie de France

NOVELS:
THE MYSTERIES OF UDOLPHO (1794) Ann Radcliffe
THE HOUSE OF THE VAMPIRE (1907) George Sylvester Viereck