Vampires in Our Midst

Long before the theme of the vampire became popularized by Bram Stoker, Stephen King, and Anne Rice, serious literary writers had written vampire stories, culled from different traditions, but particularly from the oral and mythical folklore. In this brief anthology of texts, we present a selection of stories by literary writers from the 19th Century: Alexandre Dumas (1862-1870), Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol (1809-1852), J. Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873), Guy de Maupassant (1850-1893), Edgar Allan Po...