The Penguin Book of Vampire Stories [B1600]

1989 PB with minor wear. The terrifying and definitive collection of 32 Vampire stories from the masters of literary horror. They're lurking under the cover of darkness...and between the covers of this book. Here, in all their horror and all their glory, are the great vampires of literature: male and female, invisible and metamorphic, doomed and daring. Their skin deathly pale, their nails curved like claws, their fangs sharpened for the attack, they are gathered for the kill and for the chill, brought frighteningly to life by Bram Stoker, Fritz Leiber, Richard Matheson, Robert Bloch, Charles L. Grant, Tanith Lee, and other masters of the macabre. Careful-they are all crafty enough to steal their way into your imagination and steal away your hopes for a restful sleep.

From recent Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "This is without question the best single-volume anthology of classic vampire stories ever published. It includes nearly every major work of short fiction, as well as lesser-known but highly-regarded stories. Each story is prefaced with a short introduction that provides helpful critical and cultural context. The only ways it could be better is if it included a few more European tales. Highly recommended!"; "A really solid array of 20th century vampire fiction across genres. I didn't love every story in here, but some of them were rad and made me eager to read more from those authors."; "It's fun to read the development of vampires through the centuries; from their inception up to the mid 1900s they were always this dark and sexy figure, preying on the weak and innocent, a similar story told a hundred times. Jumping to the last 70 years the stories become more colorful and spread across genres such as thriller and sci-fi."; "Uneven, but all of the stories are worth a read."; "Childhood favorite. Before the teen vampire craze, this anthology kept my imagination alive."