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Written in Blood: Vampire Tales
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781617209086
Publisher: Wilder Pubn
Published: Jan 23 2013
Pages: 354
Weight: 1.14
Height: 0.79 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Twenty-two classic and modern vampire stories tracing the evolution of the undead from Gothic terror to psychological horror.
Collected here are tales by William Polidori, Arthur Conan Doyle, Robert E. Howard, Bram Stoker, Warren Lapine, and others-spanning more than 350 pages of immortal menace. From foundational works such as The Vampyre and Carmilla to later, darker interpretations including Mona Lisa and Each Man Kills, this anthology reveals how the vampire has transformed across generations while retaining its hypnotic power.
These stories move from aristocratic Gothic dread to pulp-era brutality and modern existential unease. Seductive, predatory, tragic, and monstrous, the vampire emerges not as a single creature but as a mirror of shifting cultural fears-disease, desire, immortality, corruption, and the cost of eternal life.
Written in Blood is both an entertaining collection and a compact history of vampire fiction, showcasing the genre's most influential early voices alongside later reinterpretations that deepen and complicate the myth.
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