John William Polidori & M R James 
Vampires – A Short Story Collection 
A collection of classic stories that helped influence the modern craze of Vampires, featuring authors such as ETA Hoffman, MR James, EF Benson, F Marion Crawford & more.

For almost everyone the idea of having our blood, our life-force, sucked out of us while we sleep is both disturbing and primordially real.Vampires are a popular tool of unease from authors down the decades. They come in all shapes and sizes, both male and female and for much of their time interact with everyday people as kind and helpful neighbours, not the product of our wildest fears.In this volume we can offer little in the way of comfort, but we can offer chilling fear so that the next time you want to fall asleep you may want to stay awake a little longer. The Vampyre. A Tale by John William Polidori Count Magnus by M R James Mrs Amworth by E F Benson The Black Vampyre by Uriah Derick D’Arcy The Last of the Vampires by Phil Robinson Vampirismus or Aurelia by E T A Hoffman The Room in the Tower by E F Benson The Vampire Maid by Hume Nisbet The Horror of Abbot’s Grange by Frederick Cowles The Vampire by Jan Neruda Wake Not the Dead by Ernst Raupach Alymer Vance and the Vampire by Alice and Claude Askew For the Blood is the Life by F Marion Crawford