Dracula’s Guest: A Connoisseur’s Collection of Victorian Vampire Stories - ed. Michael Sims

Written by ed. Michael Sims
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Dracula’s Guest: A Connoisseur’s Collection of Victorian Vampire Stories
Edited by Michael Sims

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Total # of Tracks: 4
Total Play time: 16:59:57

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Before Twilight and True Blood, even before Buffy and Anne Rice and Bela Lugosi, vampires haunted the 19th century, when brilliant writers everywhere indulged their bloodthirsty imaginations, culminating in Bram Stoker’s legendary 1897 novel, Dracula.
Michael Sims brings together the very best vampire stories of the Victorian era - from England, America, France, Germany, Transylvania, and even Japan - into a unique collection that highlights their cultural variety. Beginning with the supposedly true accounts that captivated Byron and Shelley, the stories range from 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 includes a 19th-century travel tour of Transylvanian superstitions, and rounds out the collection with Stoker’s own “Dracula’s Guest” - a chapter omitted from his landmark novel.
Vampires captivated the Victorians, as Sims reveals in his insightful introduction: In 1867, Karl Marx described capitalism as “dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor”; while in 1888 a London newspaper invoked vampires in trying to explain Jack the Ripper’s predations. At a time when vampires have been re-created in a modern context, Dracula’s Guest will remind readers young, old, and in between of why the undead won’t let go of our imagination. Readers of Dracula’s Guest may also enjoy Michael Sims’ most recent collection, The Dead Witness: A Connossieur’s Collection of Victorian Detective Stories.

Stories in this collection:

01) Introduction: The Cost of Living • essay by Michael Sims
–One: The Roots–
02) They Opened the Graves by Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d’Argens
03) Dead Persons in Hungary by Augustin Calmet
04) The End of My Journey by Lord George Gordon Byron
05) The Vampyre by Dr. John William Polidori
06) Wake Not the Dead by Ernst Raupach
07) The Deathly Lover by Théophile Gautier
–Two: The Tree–
08) The Family of the Vourdalak by Aleksei Tolstoy
09) Varney the Vampyre: Or, The Feast of Blood by James Malcolm Rymer
10) What Was It? A Mystery by Fitz-James O’Brien
11) The Mysterious Stranger by Karl von Wachsmann
12) A Mystery of the Campagna by Von Degen
13) Death and Burial - Vampires and Were-Wolves by Emily Gerard
14) Let Loose by Mary Cholmondeley
15) A True Story of a Vampire by Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock
16) Good Lady Ducayne by Mary Elizabeth Braddon
17) And the Creature Came In by Augustus Hare
18) The Tomb of Sarah by F. G. Loring
19) The Vampire by Hume Nisbet
–Three: The Fruit–
20) Luella Miller by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
21) Count Magnus by M. R. James
22) Aylmer Vance and the Vampire by Alice Askew and Claude Askew
23) Dracula’s Guest by Bram Stoker