(Ebook) Dracula's Guest: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Vampire Stories by Sims, Michael (Editor) ISBN 9780802719713, 0802719716

(Ebook) Dracula's Guest: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Vampire Stories by Sims, Michael (Editor) ISBN 9780802719713, 0802719716

"*Dracula's Guest invokes the dangerous shadows of Victorian culture, those dark places where passion, terror, pathos, and sorrow mingle and merge. Gathering together canonical works along with less familiar knock-out masterpieces, Michael Sims has produced an anthology designed to keep us all up at night."--Maria Tatar, professor and chair of the program in Folklore and Mythology at Harvard University, author of The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales and *Enchanted Hunters: The Power of Stories in Childhood

"In this fine new anthology, Michael Sims brings to bear his extensive knowledge of Victorian tales and their tellers on the vampire genre. Despite the title, Sims's nets have caught fascinating material that pre-dates Dracula and the Victorians.Some will be familiar (excerpts from works by the Abbé Calmet, Lord Byron, John Polidori, and Varney the Vampire, for example), but other authors and stories will be new to many, revealing an unexpected depth and breadth to the thrall of the undead. With a thoughtful introduction to the volume as well as each story, this book belongs in the crypt of every student of the creatures of the night!"--Leslie S. Klinger, editor of The New Annotated Dracula and *The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes*

"Everyone loves a good vampire story, but it takes a true aficionado with an insatiable thirst for knowledge to ferret out the roots of these monsters' enduring appeal. There is no better guide to the natural history and mythology of the Undead than Mich