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Upton, Smyth. The Last of the Vampires. Weston-Super-Mare, U.K.: Columbian Press, 1845. Reprinted in The Spectre Bridegroom and Other Horrors, edited by R. Reginald and Douglas Melville. New York: Arno Press, 1976. Rockville, Md., U.S.: Wildside Press, 2008.
Urquhart, M. The Island of Souls: Being a Sensational Fairy-tale. London: Mills & Boon, 1910.
Viereck, George Sylvester. The House of the Vampire. New York: Moffatt, Yard, 1907. New York: Arno Press, 1976. North Stratford, N.H., U.S.: Ayer, 2001.
Wachsmann, Karl von. ‘The Mysterious Stranger.’ Originally published under the title ‘Der Fremde’ in Erzahlungen und Novellen, third series. Leipzig, 1844. Translated into English for its appearance in Chambers’s Repository, February 1854. Reprinted in Vampires: Classic Tales, edited by Mike Ashley. Mineola, N.Y.: Dover, 2011. After being unattributed for many years, confirmation that Wachsmann was the author of this story was provided by Douglas A. Anderson in his article ‘A Note on M. R. James and Dracula’ (Fastitocalon, Vol. 1, No. 2, 2010).
Watson, H. B. Marriott. ‘The Stone Chamber.’ In The Heart of Miranda, and Other Stories, Being Mostly Winter Tales. London: John Lane, 1898. Reprinted in Dracula’s Brood, edited by Richard Dalby. Wellingborough, U.K.: Crucible, 1987; New York: Dorset Press, 1991; London: Harper, 2016.
Webber, Charles Wilkins. Spiritual Vampirism: The History of Etherial Softdown and Her Friends of the ‘New Light.’ Philadelphia: Grambo, 1853. Charleston, S.C., U.S.: Nabu Press, 2010.
Wells, H. G. ‘The Flowering of the Strange Orchid.’ Pall Mall Budget, 2 August, 1894. First book publication in The Stolen Bacillus, and Other Incidents. London: Methuen, 1895. Reprinted in Vampires, Wine and Roses, edited by John Richard Stephens. New York: Berkley Books, 1997.
——. The War of the Worlds. Simultaneously serialised in Pearson’s Magazine and The Cosmopolitan Magazine, April–December 1897. Book Versions include: London: Heinemann, 1898; New York: Harper & Bros., 1898. London and New York: Penguin, 2005. London: Gollancz, 2012. New York: Cosimo Classics, 2012. Minneapolis, Minn., U.S.: First Avenue Editions, 2014.
White, Fred M. ‘The Purple Terror.’ The Strand, September 1899. Reprinted in Monsters Galore, edited by Bernhardt J. Hurwood. New York: Fawcett, 1965.
Whyte-Melville, G. J. ‘A Vampire.’ An episode in Bones and I; or, The Skeleton at Home. London: Chapman and Hall, 1868. [s.l.]: HardPress Publishing, 2013. Published separately as ‘Madame de St. Croix,’ in Vintage Vampire Stories, edited by Robert Eighteen-Bisang and Richard Dalby. New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2011.
Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray. Originally published on 20th June, 1890 in the July 1890 edition of Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine. Book versions include: London: Ward, Lock, 1891. New York: Vintage, 2011. London: Penguin, 2012. San Diego, Calif., U.S.: IDW Publishing, 2012. London: Arcturus, 2013.
Williams, Thaddeus W. In Quest of Life. London and New York: F. T. Neely, 1898.
X. L. (pseudonym of Julian Osgood Field). ‘A Kiss of Judas.’ Pall Mall Magazine, July 1893. First book publication in Aut Diabolus aut Nihil, and Other Tales. London: Methuen, 1894. Reprinted in Vintage Vampire Stories, edited by Robert Eighteen-Bisang and Richard Dalby. New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2011.
Young, Arthur. ‘Pepopukin in Corsica.’ In The Stanley Tales, Vol. 1. London: Thomas Hurst & Co., 1827 (as by ‘A. Y.’). Reprinted, as by ‘Arthur Young,’ in The Best Vampire Stories 1800–1849, edited by Andrew Barger. Memphis, Tenn., U.S.: Bottletree Classics, 2012. Barger’s claim that Arthur Young is the author of this story is unsubstantiated, and must be regarded as an educated guess.
Compiled by Brian J. Frost
About the Editors
Richard Dalby is a professional author, bibliographer, researcher and bookdealer, specializing in supernatural fiction. His previous anthologies include The Sorceress in Stained Glass (1971), Dracula’s Brood (1987; reprinted 2016), The Virago Book of Ghost Stories (1987–1991; three volumes), The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories (1990–1995; three volumes), Ghosts for Christmas (1988) and five other Christmas volumes. He has also edited and collected numerous single-author collections by H. Russell Wakefield, E. F. Benson, S. Baring-Gould, John Metcalfe, W. F. Harvey, L. A. G. Strong, F. Marion Crawford, Eleanor Scott, Rosemary Timperley, and many others.
Brian J. Frost, a freelance writer and graphic artist, is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading authorities on vintage weird fiction. He first became interested in vampires after reading Bram Stoker’s Dracula while in his teens, and in 1989 published the first full-scale survey of vampire fiction, The Monster with a Thousand Faces: Guises of the Vampire in Myth and Literature. Brian has written two other books dealing with iconic supernatural monsters, The Essential Guide to Werewolf Literature (2003) and The Essential Guide to Mummy Literature (2008). Dracula’s Brethren is the second anthology he has edited, the first being Book of the Werewolf (1973), which was a huge success. A talented artist, Brian specialises in fantasy and macabre illustrations, the best of which have appeared in books and magazines.
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