

Horror Historia Violet
"I have seen an evil thing this night," he said; "I have seen how the dead drink the blood of the living. And the blood is the life."
Gothic grotesqueries, penny dreadfuls, pulp magazines, and other darkly inventive publications have produced a dread allure across the world, infiltrating culture and influencing language, becoming the source for multiple adaptations across all forms of media. Curated and edited by C.S.R. Calloway, Horror Historia Red brings together thirty-one of the greatest horrifyingly riveting and grotesquely romantic vampire stories from authors around the globe ensuring there's a flavor here for every palate.
Calloway provides fresh translations of Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy's "The Family," Horacio Quiroga's "The Feather Pillow," and Karl Heinrich Ulrichs's "Manor." Completing the horde of additional stories are: "Bewitched" (Edith Wharton), "The Black Vampyre" (Uriah Derick D'Arcy), "The Bride of Corinth" (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe), "The Canal" (Everil Worrell), "Clarimonde" (Théophile Gautier), "Count Magnus" (M. R. James), "A Dead Finger" (Sabine Baring-Gould), "Dracula's Guest" (Bram Stoker), "The Feast of Blood" (James Malcolm Rymer and Thomas Peckett Prest), "For the Blood is the Life" (F. Marion Crawford), "Ken's Mystery" (Julian Hawthorne), "The Last of the Vampires" and "Medusa" (Phil Robinson), "Luella Miller" (Mary Wilkins Freeman), "Mrs. Amworth" (E. F. Benson), The Mysterious Stranger (Karl von Wachsmann), "The Old Portrait" (Hume Nisbet), "Red Thirst" (Henry Kuttner), "The Stone Chamber" (H. B. Marriott Watson), "The Sumach" (Ulric Daubeny), "The Tomb of Sarah" (F. G. Loring), "The Transfer" (Algernon Blackwood), "The True Story of a Vampire" (Eric Stenbock), "The Vampire" (W. W. Lamble), "The Vampyre" (John William Polidori), "Wake Not the Dead" (Ernst Raupach), "The Wolf-Woman" (Bassett Morgan), and "The Woman with the 'Oily Eyes'" (J. E. Muddock).
For the truly bloodthirsty, collect each Horror Historia volume and complete the ultimate nightmare pantheon.
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