Dracula's Guest: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Vampire Stories [Kindle Edition]

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"Sims, editor of the brilliant collection, gathers stories in the undead written during what he loosely terms the Victorian era.... the bloodsuckers presented here are predators who may be turned away only by Christian symbols, garlic, and little else. Do not expect sparkling Twilight vampires and even the good-guy types that sometimes appeared inside Buffy the Vampire Slayer franchise. An excellent addition to popular fiction and literature collections." --Library Journal (starred review)

"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 in addition to less familiar knock-out masterpieces, Michael Sims has produced an anthology designed to keep us all up at night."--Maria Tatar, professor and chair with the program in Folklore and Mythology at Harvard University, author of The Annotated Classic fairy Tales and Enchanted Hunters: The Energy of Stories in Childhood

"In this fine new anthology, Michael Sims brings to deal with his extensive familiarity with 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 probably be familiar (excerpts from works through the Abbé Calmet, Lord Byron, John Polidori, and Varney the Vampire, for example), but other authors and stories is gonna be new to many, revealing surprise depth and breadth on the thrall of the undead. With a thoughtful introduction to the volume too as each story, this book belongs within the crypt of each student in the creatures from the night!"--Leslie S. Klinger, editor of The Modern Annotated Dracula and The Brand New Annotated Sherlock Holmes

"Everyone loves an excellent vampire story, nevertheless it requires a true aficionado by having an insatiable thirst for knowledge to ferret the roots of the monsters' enduring appeal. There's no better guide on the natural history and mythology with the Undead than Michael Sims."--Jennifer Ouellette, author of The Physics in the Buffyverse and Black Bodies and Quantum Cats
Before Twilight and True Blood, even before Buffy and Anne Rice and Bela Lugosi, vampires haunted the nineteenth century, when brilliant writers everywhere indulged their bloodthirsty imaginations, culminating in Bram Stoker's legendary 1897 novel, Dracula.
Michael Sims brings together the most effective vampire stories from the Victorian era-from England, America, France, Germany, Transylvania, as well as Japan-into an original collection that highlights their cultural variety. Beginning while using supposedly true accounts that captivated Byron and Shelley, the stories range between Edgar Allan Poe's "The Oval Portrait" and Sheridan Le Fanu's "Carmilla" to Guy de Maupassant's "The Horla" and Mary Elizabeth Braddon's "Good Lady Ducayne." Sims also incorporates a nineteenth-century travel tour of Transylvanian superstitions, and rounds out your collection with Stoker's own "Dracula's Guest"-a chapter omitted from his landmark novel.
Vampires captivated the Victorians, as Sims reveals as part of his insightful introduction: In 1867, Karl Marx described capitalism as "dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor"; during 1888 a London newspaper invoked vampires in trying to explain Jack the Ripper's predations. At a moment when vampires are already re-created in the modern context, Dracula's Guest will remind readers young, old, plus between of why the undead won't release our imagination.